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examples
of symmetry
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Crystals - Kenneth Libbrecht
This site is about making snow crystals and snowflakes and includes lots of photographs. |
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Snowflake Man
Wilson Bentley photographed more than 5000 snowflakes during his lifetime, not finding any two alike. |
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| mandalas
- circular designs involving symmetry with their origins in Tibetan Buddhism
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ambigrams
- a word or words that can be read in more than one way or from more than
a single vantage point
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rotate 180°, made with Ambigram.Matic
interactive
resources and software
Flash
movie
SymFace
Upload a photo and see how your
face would look if it was perfectly symmetrical.
symmetry
by folding and cutting
examples of 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 lines
of symmetry
Virtual
Fold and Cut
This Java applet lets you fold and
cut a square piece of paper. The resulting unfolded shape can be saved
as a pdf file.
Kirigami
- Kevin Whitley
Kirigami is a Java applet that allows
you to cut polygons from the wedge that results after folding a piece of
paper. You then see the figure that results when the paper is unfolded.
The number of lines of symmetry can be set between 5 and 25.
Symmetry
in Architecture - Kim Williams
review of symmetry in architecture
and an exploration of why an architect might choose a given symmetry type
mirror
curves
designs involving reflective and
rotational symmetry by the Tamil women of India and the Tchokwe people
of Angola
New
designs from Africa - Paulus Gerdes
analysis of mirror curves
Modularity
in Art - Slavik Jablan
art based on modules (basic elements)
and the use of symmetry
numeracysoftware.com
PowerPoint presentations, worksheets,
logo files and other resources on symmetry and tessellations
collection
of links - Jill Britton
links for types of symmetry, masks,
quilts, polygons, paper folding, soap bubbles, Escher, Islamic tessellations
and lots more
resources
page - symmetry patterns / groups
Symmetries are transformations that
leave a pattern unchanged. For a given pattern, the set of symmetries is
called a group. The symmetry patterns / groups page
provides lots of resources for these symmetry groups. Examples include
rosette, border and wallpaper patterns.