A seamlessly-repeating pattern fill can be an attractive background for your company website as well as fliers, business cards and other documents. Creating such a pattern can however be quite tricky ...

Not long ago, Nancy VanRooy sent me an invitation to visit a class she was teaching at the Forest Hills Fine Arts Center. When I arrived on a Thursday morning, the room was beginning to fill with ...

They say practice makes perfect, and for the artists in the Carroll County Arts Council’s newest exhibition, “Metrics,” it is this repetition that drives their work. The exhibit features work of three ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Remember the graph paper you used at school, the kind that’s covered with tiny squares? It’s the perfect illustration of what mathematicians call a “periodic tiling of space”, with shapes covering an ...