As to copyright, Escher didn't trademark the entire idea of tesselating lizards; and those aren't precisely the same shape as his (I know, I have the calendar at my desk and I compared).
The copyright issue is what held me back from making my tiles. Apart from minor details like not having my own place to put them, that is. :) I didn't mean that it should've held them back; I know why it didn't, and I'm glad. I wonder if there's much of a market for such things -- I have a goldfish tessellation I made a while back that I'd be willing to license out.
It's not paving stones, I want, though. It's an interior hallway leading to a conservatory where they're meant to go, so I need nice, glossy tiles smaller than those seem to be, and I want the exact Escher lizards too. Does it only become illegal if I profit from it? SO do I have to remove them if I sell my dream house? :)
Someone I knew wanted to put Penrose tiles down, but apparently Penrose is pretty strict about ownership of that pattern. They were also wondering if they'd have to rip the tile up if they ever sold the house.
I wonder if one could design a Penrose-like quasiperiodic lizard tiling.
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Oooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Date: 2002-06-06 05:48 pm (UTC)Re: Oooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Date: 2002-06-06 06:08 pm (UTC)As to copyright, Escher didn't trademark the entire idea of tesselating lizards; and those aren't precisely the same shape as his (I know, I have the calendar at my desk and I compared).
Re: Oooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Date: 2002-06-06 09:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-06-06 05:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-06-06 07:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-06-07 12:37 am (UTC)Tilings
Date: 2002-06-07 03:49 pm (UTC)I wonder if one could design a Penrose-like quasiperiodic lizard tiling.
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Date: 2002-06-06 10:29 pm (UTC)