Tesselations

Tesselations

A tesselation is a pattern of shapes that are put together and fit nicely around each other. Also there are no gaps between any of the shapes. There are a few types of tesselations. We will only be talking about two, which are the regular and the semi-regular tesselations.

Regular Tesselations

The Regular Tesselation is made up of only one congruent regular polygon at a time. Although only one shape at a time can be a tesselation there are still a few different types of shapes. Those are the square, the equlateral triangle, and a hexagon.

Example of a Regular Tesselation

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That is a regular tesselation made out of hexagons.

Semi Regular Tesselations

A semi regular tesselation is a tesselation with more than one type of regular polygon and has the same arrangement at every vertex.

Example of a Semi Regular Tesselation

This is a semi regular tesselation made out of the hexagon and the equilateral triangle.

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Vocab

Vertex-The point where shapes fit nicely around the one point.

Other Helpful Things

Master Of Tesselations

Here is a video about a Japanese Tesselation.

 

on March 12, 2007 at 4:42 PM

Very nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
on March 13, 2007 at 7:12 AM

goertzeni,
Fantastic! Once again, I can tell that you put quite a bit of work into your Scribe Post. The site you linked to, Totally Tessellated, is an amazing site on tessellations that you'll want to go back to when you start your project.
I'll check out the video when I get home--it doesn't work at school.
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