Tuesday, 6 May 2014

tessellations 2

Tessellations

Why don't one of you take up a project on Tessellations ?



Tessellation

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ceramic Tiles in Marrakech, forming edge-to-edge, regular and other tessellations
A wall sculpture at Leeuwarden celebrating the artistic tessellations of M. C. Escher
tessellation of a flat surface 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.
. Historically, tessellations were used in Ancient Rome and in Islamic artsuch as in the decorative tiling of the Alhambra palace. In the twentieth century, the work of M. C. Escher often made use of tessellations for artistic effect. Tessellations are sometimes employed for decorative effect in quilting. Tessellations form a class of patterns in nature, for example in the arrays of hexagonal cellsfound in honeycombs.