Robert Reid and the Art of Spacefilling in two and three dimensions

Robert Reid has been an avid recreational mathematician for many
decades, and is world famous in the recreational mathematics and puzzle
community, known particularly for his contributions to the field of
tessellations and geometric dissections. (Many of the latter can be
found in the book "Dissections Plane & Fancy" by Greg Frederickson.)

This seminar introduces some of Robert's unusual creations for space
fillers and solid dissections, as well as his tessellations in two
dimensions. Anthony Steed will will talk about some tessellations and
Robert's "Bow-tie" spacefiller, and also 3-D printing methods for making
such objects; Simon Bexfield will talk about the "Bathke" spacefiller,
and John Sharp will talk about spacefilling and the trisection of the
cube. Robert himself will present building blocks made from squashed
cubes, families of infinite varieties of space fillers, five-way
tessellations of the plane, the "squirmfest" (a solid space filler with
more than fifty faces), a "cockrell" made of five identical modules, and
over a hundred tessellations both black and white and coloured.

ANTHONY STEED is Professor of Virtual Environments & Computer Graphics
in the Department of Computer Science at University College London.
SIMON BEXFIELD is a recreational mathematician and puzzle maker; he is
also a wood worker and sees himself as an inventor, which he defines as
the skill of taking a concept and making it a reality. JOHN SHARP is a
mathematician and mathematics educator; he is Visiting Fellow at LKL and
one of the organisers of the Maths-Art seminars. ROBERT REID grew up in
England, but spent more than 50 years living in Peru, pursuing various
careers. Now living in London, he continues his study of geometry and
the creation of new spacefillers and dissections.

Next seminar: 9 December, The Art and Mathematics of Paper Folding

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