Robert Fathauer
"Chameleons"
digital print, 10-1/2" x 13", 2005.
"Drawing on Glide Reflection Symmetry"
digital print, 11" x 10", 2005.
Robert Fathauer received the B.S. degree in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Denver in 1982, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1987. He is currently a part-time research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a part-time Research Professor at Arizona State University, specializing in semiconductor materials and devices. He also owns a small business, Tessellations, founded in 1993, that produces puzzles and other products that combine art and math.
"Tessellations and fractals are possibly the two branches of mathematics with the greatest esthetic appeal. I am particularly interested in combining the two, a union that has only been touched on by other artists. Over time I have created numerous geometric fractal tessellations, and I have adapted some of these designs to lifelike tiles in the spirit of M.C. Escher. I have also created numerous non-fractal lifelike tessellations, and some of these are the basis for my puzzles."
More of Robert's art may be seen at http://members.cox.net/tessellations/Art.html
Numerous examples of fractal tilings he has discovered may be seen at http://members.cox.net/fractalenc/encyclopedia.html .
email: tessellations@cox.net.