Maurits C. Escher - a Dutch Graphics Artist

During my tenure at Hope College, several students worked with me studying the tessellations of M. C. Escher. We wrote computer programs to replicate several of his tessellations as well as other work that had mathematical properties. Computer programs were written in BASIC, Pascal, and more recently we have used MAPLE.

Two PowerPoint presentations have been added as zipped folders. One of these incorporates output from MAPLE. They are available at the end of this page in an unzipped format so may take some time to load.

Maple worksheets that construct examples of the 17 plane symmetry groups are available in a zipped folder. First extract the files into a folder of your choosing. If you open MAPLE and then, from MAPLE, open Menu, you will be able to run these programs. Several of them contain animations. Click on the figure and then use the animation controls on the toolbar.

Here is a link to MAPLE programs to construct tessellations. They are in a zipped folder.	Here is a link to two PowerPoint presentations, one of which incorporates MAPLE output.
Here is a link to Maple output that has been exported to html. Load the Menu.html from any web browser.	This will load the menu and you can go from there.
Here is a link that gives some information about M.C. Escher.	Here is another interesting M.C. Escher site.

Here are two PowerPoint presentations that I had prepared for Hope College colloquia. The first is 138 slides and incorporates IBM-PC output and Tektronix 4051 output. (Escher)

This word document gives a summary of the talk. (abstract)

Here is a 200 slide PowerPoint presentation that incorporates Maple output. (Longer Escher)