Art in the Park Letterbox
What Zoo Boise Needs
 
Terrain: Easy
Difficulty: Easy
Placed: July 18, 2010
By: The Dragon
Location: Boise, ID

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Years ago, I fell in love with MC Escher's art, particularly his tessellations.  As a math student and teacher, I have used various techniques to create Escher-type tessellations.  In fact, my signature stamp is the tessellation piece of one of my first computer generated tessellations.  (You can see it on my home page.) 

In this box is one of the tessellation pieces that I have created in the past.  This box is intended to be a quick find, but the tough part comes in when you attempt to tessellate it!  See, the stamp image is a puzzle piece of one.  It will interlock with itself - hence a tessellation!  An example of the tessellation, and how it might be colored in at home is in the box.  I hope you enjoy this box and don't get too frustrated!  If you would like to learn more about tessellations and my techniques, email me!  (My tessellation website is currently down...)

History of this box:

The first Sunday I was in Idaho, we took our grandkids to Zoo Boise.  As we entered Julia Davis Park, I noticed that the Boise Art Museum is located near the entrance, and I thought - "Hmmm, I should place one of my 'Art in the Park' boxes here."  Putting that in the back of my head, we went on to the zoo.  It is a pretty good zoo for its size, with the largest tigers I've ever seen in a zoo!  However, my step-daughter pointed out that Zoo Boise is missing one important animal.  Then everything fit into place for this box.  Find the box, and you'll find what Zoo Boise is missing...(until now)!

Clues:

Go west from The Bright Land and look under rocks of concrete below the middle of two spouts.

Hint: You do not need to pay anything to get this box.  Be discrete as this is a high-traffic area.  Replace box better than found.  Thanks!
 

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