Launch of the Tessellation Archive
An Online Collection of Tiled Tissues and Architectures from Across the Natural World
Collection Overview: The Tessellation Archive. Copyright: Felix Rasehorn
Tessellations are structural motifs made up of repeating tiles, found in many forms and serving a variety of functions in nature. Perhaps partly inspired by natural examples, tessellations have also been a part of human history in art, design and culture, commonly in the form of mosaics, and more recently in the realm of bio-inspired design and engineering. This collection showcases the diversity of this motif, exploring commonalities in structure and function across environments and taxa, to inspire biological and biomaterials research, but also bioinspired design and architecture. Follow the link to explore the classification scheme and compare the similarities and differences between the tessellations.
https://tessellated-materials.mpikg.mpg.de
Researchers
(in alphabetical order)
Jana Ciecierska-Holmes
Mason Dean
Lennart Eigen
Mai-Lee Van Le
John Nyakatura
Felix Rasehorn
Nikolai Rosenthal
Binru Yang