Hyperbolic Tessellation Mandalas

In July 2009 I visited the MC Escher exhibit at the Portland Art Museum (Oregon). Seeing MC Escher’s Circle Limit IV (Angels & Demons) blew me away. However, I was even more intrigued by the graph system he used to help him create it. After a few months of research I was able to create my own graph which allows me to create mandalas as if they were on a sphere. As with the Symmetry Mandalas, I start with a simple pattern idea, tessellate it around the hyperbolic plane which often generates at least two new unforeseen patterns.

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