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Fish Tessellation

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This was a project for my math class. I really love tessellations.
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Have you done other tessellations?
I've submitted this one to be part of the "M C Escher Style" club's gallery. Before that happens, you have to click somewhere to allow us to display it.
If you have other tessellations, I hope you'll let us display those, too.

I would have asked also to display this in my personal website, Tessellations dot org , but that website adheres to a very puritanical "safe for kids" code, and the naked-person fish in this tessellation would make the littler kids giggle. *sigh*. I even had to hide the breasts of a Moser tessellation of trout (with a mermaid), circa 1899, on my site for the same reason. The site gets 3,000 to 8,000 hits per day, most of 'em 8-to-15-year-olds in math or art class.

If you have other tessellations that are more G-rated, or if you'd be willing to display only a portion of this one, would you consider showing your work on my site? There'd be room for a descriptive paragraph underneath the art, which could contain link(s) back to your gallery here and/or another gallery or blog you might have. Before displaying the art on Tessellations dot org it would need to be watermarked, of course, with your name and the phrase "(c) 2013" to thwart piracy. I could do that, or you may want to do it yourself.

It's interesting how you solved the question, "where do I put the tail, in this essentially diamond-shaped tessellation?"
I've faced the problem myself, and found three OTHER ways to handle the tail problem.
Check 'em out:
1) One fish holds another's tail in its mouth: tessellations.org/seth-tessell…
2) One fish's tail wraps around another's whole head: tessellations.org/seth-tessell…
3) Arse-kissing: one fish's tail rests on the another's' forehead. This one's a bit of a cheat because I chose a fish whose elongated mouth is peculiar to the species... but heck, the variety of fish shapes and flexibility of their fins and bodies is 90% of the reason why fish are such a popular motif for tessellation. I wrote a fun essay about that: tessellations.org/essays-commo…