Escher's Lizard Tessellation Investigation

Move the sliders to explore the tile formation process and the symmetries of the tessellation.

Investigation:

1) Describe in what happens as you move the sliders ,and . What does this reveal about how Escher's tessellation and its base image?

2) Describe in what happens as you move the sliders ,and . What does this reveal about how Escher's tessellation was created?