Manzanita Matrix

Featuring an ornate botanical pattern of leaves and branches, this tesselated digital mosaic has been assembled from 16 iterations of a square "tile" cut from a larger digital photograph of manzanita bushes growing in a forest on the eastern slopes of California's Sierra Nevada mountain range. This image, in contrast with its companions in the "Manzanita" series, displays the primary pattern that its "digital 'seed' tile" created with simple horizontal and vertical mirroring across a canvas. When a first matrix displays visual complexity, as this one does, that produces pleasing instances of pareidolia--optical illusions of faces, creatures, and other meaningful shapes--I play with color, shape, and line matches along offset edges of paired and clustered tiles edges to find alternate mosaic designs.

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Filename: manzanita-first matrix.jpg
Copyright: 2021 Jennifer Nelson
Image Size: 4320x4320 / 3.2MB; mosaic pattern wallpaper geometrical tesselation collage manzanita optical illusion pareidolia botanical vegetation forest plant photography
Contained in galleries: LICC 2021 Entry: Tangled Tessellations, Pareidolia Wonderlands

Featuring an ornate botanical pattern of leaves and branches, this tesselated digital mosaic has been assembled from 16 iterations of a square "tile" cut from a larger digital photograph of manzanita bushes growing in a forest on the eastern slopes of California's Sierra Nevada mountain range. This image, in contrast with its companions in the "Manzanita" series, displays the primary pattern that its "digital 'seed' tile" created with simple horizontal and vertical mirroring across a canvas. When a first matrix displays visual complexity, as this one does, that produces pleasing instances of pareidolia--optical illusions of faces, creatures, and other meaningful shapes--I play with color, shape, and line matches along offset edges of paired and clustered tiles edges to find alternate mosaic designs.