Part of the course was learning in detail about number theory, linear algebra and geometry. This information was not new to me, however, it was a good reminder of what I had studied in my Bachelor. A big difference was that what I wrote on paper I also needed to translate into code in order to make "pretty" visual representations of those formulas, something which I have never done before. 

In the execution of Eden, I had to understand the Heesch Kienzle theory on tessellation patterns and learn how to use it with the help of the Oogway library in Processing. This was really exciting to me because I have always wanted to use mathematics to create art. A more interesting thing of "Eden" is the fact that I discovered that two of the tessellations could seamlessly be combined if one of them was flipped over. I have always had a passion for geometry since middle school and visualizing shapes has always been easy to me. This was done with the help of Processing, but also Illustrator: once the patterns have been generated with the help of the library, I transferred them into Illustrator and combined them to make sure they match perfectly. 

I also made two shapes for one single tessellation (Adam and Eve) and tweaked the basic algorithm to have alternating rows of the two shapes. By matching the segments where the two shapes met in the tessellation, I managed to include both in the same pattern.