Doug Dunham


"Six Lizards Pattern"


Digital Print, 8.5"x11", 2005




Doug Dunham, Department of Computer Science, UMD, Duluth, MN 55812-2496

This pattern is based on the lizard pattern of Escher's Euclidean Notebook Drawing Number 56, except that meeting points of right knees are 4-fold rotation centers, unlike Escher's pattern in which they are 3-fold rotation points. This also allows for more interesting color symmetry than in Escher's pattern: this pattern has color group isomorphic to the full symmetric group S(3), whereas the color group of Escher's pattern is the cyclic group C(3). has color group C(3)

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