Tessellation Animations

Here are a few animated tessellations by Webmaster Sethness, Dr. David, and other artists.
Some items on this list have a Flash™ icon next to them. You will need to have the free Flash Player plug-in installed or you won't be able to see'em.

2014 video by Prof. Kevin Lee shows how he used a vinyl-cutting machine to put tessellations on his office door.
1996 kangaroo tessellation animation by Bruce Bilney. We forgive him for being Australian...mostly. Sometimes. ...Not really.
2010 3D tessellation of the letters F, O, X, & Y, in honor of FireFox, the best web browser for viewing Tessellations.org.
"Aquarium", an animated fish tessellation by Dr. David, created some time prior to 2010
"Chips", a tessellation animation of french fries ("freedom fries") by Dr. David, based on a photo by Webmaster Sethness
"Crebain spies fly out!", a Tolkein theme tessellation animation by Dr. David, prior to 2010
"Dancers", an award-winning tessellation animation by Webmaster Sethness
"My Cat meets Godzilla", an animation by Webmaster Sethness. Apologies to the classic 1969 short film "Bambi Meets Godzilla".
"Ducks", an animated bird tessellation by Webmaster Sethness
"Flying Kites", an animated tessellation of kites by Dr. David
"SWING STATE: OHIO" an animation of an ambigram (not a tessellation, though) by Webmaster Sethness (2012).
"Goldfish Ball" sculpted by Webmaster Sethness.
"Lions", a circular & animated lion tessellation by Webmaster Sethness
Go offsite to M.I.T.'s "Scratch" educational project for tessellation animations in a programming language for kids 8-14.
Go offsite to YouTube, to see an iPod/iPhone application called "CirCull". That word's a portmanteau / mash-up word the author invented by combining "circle" with "cull". It's a tessellation game in which you tap adjoining tiles to switch their places. Whenever three adjoining tiles have the same color, your points go up and the tiles disappear. That disappearing is the "cull" in "CirCull". The 2D tessellation plane has been heavily distorted by a fisheye view-- that's the "circle" in "CirCull". The fish-eye lens makes the 2D tessellations look a bit like a circle-limit tessellation.
Go offsite to YouTube, to see how M. C. Escher's "Pegasus" flying horse tessellation is put together.
Go offsite to YouTube, to see how an Escher fish tessellation morphs into a bird design, also by M. C. Escher.
Go offsite to see a delightful animation of Escher working on, and being worked on by, a tessellation