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Introduction

Hi!

In addition to Tessa or Tess, I often go by the handle tessaract (on AIM, twitter and quite a few other places). I do a few different things to earn income. First and foremost: I design. I'm trained as a graphic designer/commercial illustrator. As a kid, I wanted to airbrush rock album covers, movie posters and sci-fi book covers when I grew up (Yes, you read it right: album covers. I'm that old. And I may grow up yet!). I also program in a few scripting languages and when I can, I like to share what I know via writing posts, articles and books.

In the 90's, I fell into multimedia (video, audio and animation in Director/Flash - remember CD-Roms?), and in the late 90's, I fell into web development ("What? you want that design, video and audio on the web?! You know, it's only 1997, right?!"). Along the way, I got deeper into programming (JavaScript, ActionScript, PHP a little Python), and I became absolutely fascinated with organizing data and content to work with it programatically (XML, JSON, MySQL, SQLite).

Most recently in the past few years, I've moved over to full OOP programming of not only Flash-based and AJAX web apps, but desktop and mobile apps as well (Not very rock album cover-y, but pretty cool none-the-less).

So, What's a Tessaract?

A tessellation or tiling of the plane is a collection of plane figures that fills the plane with no overlaps and no gaps -- wikipedia.org

I've liked the word "tesseract" ever since I read Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle In Time as a kid. The term is actually "tesseract" and while Madeleine used it to describe a type of time/space/warp portal, it is actually a hypercube or tetracube (hence the name of my LLC: hyper³media pronounced: hyper-cube-media). Yep, I spell tesseract incorrectly, on purpose, to have my name in there: tessaract.

"Tess" is a greek root that relates to the number 4. My name for example is Greek for "fourth born". A tesseract is a 4-dimensional cube as we discussed and tessellation is the tiling of squares or things with 4 sides (like old-school desktop wallpaper), you get the picture.

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