TESSELLATION

Tessellation

A tessellation is the tiling of a plane using one or more geometric shapes, called tiles, with no overlaps and no gaps. In mathematics, tessellations can be generalized to higher dimensions.

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tessellation

Noun

  1. The property or fact of tessellating.
    Squares can be used for tessellation.
  2. A tiling pattern with no gaps; the result of tessellating an area or plane.
    This is a tessellation of the plane with squares and regular octagons.
  3. A less common name for polygon tessellation.


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