Quiz: tessellate this!
Posted by staff / May 13, 2011
Tessellations — those gapless, mesmerizing mosaics of defined shapes — pop up everywhere once you know what you’re looking for. You can find them under microscopes, radiating from sunflowers and even in the hallowed halls of art museums.
In their simplest form, tessellations consist of a single shape that repeats over a two-dimensional plane without any gaps. What can you tell us about these awesome repeating patterns?
Show what you know at HowStuffWorks.com.
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