INTRODUCTION TO KALEIDOTILE SOFTWARE

ACTIVITY SHEET

The exercises contained in this activity require the KaleidoTile program developed by Jeff Weeks. If you do not yet have a copy of this software, you may wish to download KaleidoTile.

For more information regarding this activity and its objectives, see the accompanying Teacher's Guide.

Time to Play!

Load the KaleidoTile program. Four different windows will appear on the screen:

Symmetry Group

What to Draw

Basepoint

Tiling

In the Tiling window, a polyhedron is slowly spinning and changing.

Click and hold your mouse button in this box to spin the polyhedron.
Move the basepoint in the Basepoint window with the mouse.
Try pressing the buttons in the Symmetry Group and What to Draw windows to see what they do.

Experiment!