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 LEARNING TARGET!

Creating a tesselation.

EXAMPLE

A tessalation is just like floor tiling except it goes on forever.  In fact there are rules that it must have to be a tessalation.  

1. Must go on forever.
2. The tiles must be regular polygons.
3. Each vertex has to be the same.
4. Must equal 360 degrees at every vertex.

(vertex)

 A regular tesselation is when you tesselate one regular shape.A semi-regular tesselate is when you tesselate two regular shapes.

      REGULAR TESSELATIONS                                                                                                                       

  The angle measusers around the vertecies in each hexagon formed by triangles is 60 in each triangle and 6*60 degrees=360degrees. You can also tesselate with squares.

In fact, you can tesselate with all regular shapes with six or less sides because 7 and up will overlap eachother. 

 SEMI-REGULAR TESSELATIONS.

Semi-regular tesselations are the same as regular except that their vertex configeration is different. For these you can use 2 or more shapes. The rules are still the same and every vertex must have the same configuration.

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