Tessellations by Daniel Wyllie

Daniel Wyllie creates wonderful tessellations, which got First prize in Tess Contest 2006 and Grand prize in Tess Contest 2007. His tesselations are designed in classic Escher style with animals, faces a other artistic figures as main characters.

Grand prize in Tess Contest 2007

Coworkers

Last Laugh

Mad dog

First prize in Tess Contest 2006

Faces In a Flower

Stork And Cougar

Kaleidocycles

Kaleidocycle consists of at least 6 tetrahedrons joined into chain, which head connected to it's tail. In the case of at least 8 tetrahedra it has the interesting property that it can be turned through its center in a continuous motion.

In the book "M.C.Escher kaleidocycles" (1977) the mathematician Doris Schattschneider and the graphic designer Wallace Walker showed how to cover kaleidocycles continuously with repeating patterns designed by Dutch artist M.C. Escher. It should be noted that in the work of Escher himself kaleidocycles do not appear.

Below you can see two examples of kaleidocycles decorated with Escher's tessellations.

The most comprehensive site about kaleidocycles is http://www.kaleidocycles.de/

Tesselation World of Makoto Nakamura

Who said that there's no masters of tessellation art after Escher? Just look on artworks by Japanese artist Makoto Nakamura. Pay attention to areas of the image, which are filled with identical figures that show dolphins, sea gulls, flying fishes and other figures. Put together all these figures constitute complete image, which looks as a single whole and don't fall to pieces.

Like in Escher's "Metamproses" or in "Sky and Water" tessellated figures transfer from one to another.

Below you can see some other tessellated images by Makoto Makamura.

Staircase knot

This strange composition of staircase reminds Möbius strip, but unlike Möbius strip this figure has two sides. So someone, who will try to rise this stairs, will continue rising infinitely returning to the starting point.

The sculpture also reminds one of the famous Escher's images "Knots". One of the them you can see below. This knot is also not a Möbius strip, because it has four sides.

Escher's building in origami

Some people redraw Escher's artworks with computer, the others create woodcarvings based on Escher's lithographs, but Ingrid Siliakus crates Escher's buildings using paper. I don't know how this kind of art can be called. I think it's a branch of origami.

UPDATE (thanks to lispnik):

This kind of art is called kirigami that is variation of origami, where the artist is allowed to make small cuts in the paper.

Below you can see some Escher-like kirigami works with respective originals.

Balcony

Relativity

Convex and concave

These images are close to originals by M.C. Escher. More such style origami constructions can be seen here http://haha.nu/amazing/unique-paper-cut-artworks/