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Math Tessellation Final Project

The document describes two storyboards for tessellations. The first storyboard uses a square as the original shape, with a random shape cut out and placed on the opposite side to create a tile. The tile is then translated to fit empty spaces and create a tessellation. The second storyboard also starts with a square, but cuts it into four shapes that are each rotated 180 degrees and translated to form a tile with sides meeting in the middle. This tile is then translated to fit empty spaces and tessellate. Both tessellations are achieved through translations that move the shapes into empty spaces created by removing them from the original shape.

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Math Tessellation Final Project

The document describes two storyboards for tessellations. The first storyboard uses a square as the original shape, with a random shape cut out and placed on the opposite side to create a tile. The tile is then translated to fit empty spaces and create a tessellation. The second storyboard also starts with a square, but cuts it into four shapes that are each rotated 180 degrees and translated to form a tile with sides meeting in the middle. This tile is then translated to fit empty spaces and tessellate. Both tessellations are achieved through translations that move the shapes into empty spaces created by removing them from the original shape.

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TESSELLATION REPORT

Storyboard
Section 1

- This was the original geometric shape. I chose this square because I could
draw shapes inside it and make my tessellation puzzle-like, by
rearranging the shapes outside the square.

- This shape tessellates because each shape removed is added to the


opposite side of the square, so when fitted together, lets the shape
replace the empty parts in the square, creating a tessellation

Section 2

- To get my tile from my original geometric shape (a square), I drew a


random shape on the top and right side of the square with one line, the
line starting and ending on the same side of the square. I then cut out
the shape, and attached the outer side of the shape (previously being a
portion of the side of the square) to the opposite side of the square.
- Transformations (from the original geometric shape to get the tile):

o The cut out shape on the right was translated to the left until its
straight side touches the squares straight side, and the shape on
top was translated to the bottom the same was. There were no
rotations or reflections.

- Transformations (of the tile in the tessellation):

o The tile is placed on the top left of the page, then duplicated, and
translated to the left until its cut-out shape fit in the empty space
of the first tile.
o This is repeated 2 more times.
o The four tiles on the top row are then duplicated and translated
down until the bottom cut-out shape of the tiles on the top row fit
in the empty spaces of the bottom row tiles.
o This is repeated 4 more times.

- The translation of the shapes in my tile works, because they are


translated exactly opposite to the side of the square they were drawn
from, allowing the same shape in another tile fit in the empty space its
absence created.

Storyboard #2
Note: this second storyboard is because my main tile only has translations and no more
other transformations, so this second tile was created solely for the transformations.
Section 1

- This was the original geometric shape. I chose this square because I could
split the square into multiple shapes and arrange them to fit in each
other’s gaps between the little spikes.

- This shape tessellates because each shape is cut out and rotated till their
outer sides (originally the sides of the square) all come together in the
middle, meaning the shapes that interlock in the middle will be facing
outward, allowing the patterns on the outside of other tiles to fit with it.

Section 2

- To get this tile, I cut out the shapes drawn in the square and arranged
them so that the outer sides of the shape, previously being the sides of
the square, came together at the middle.

- Transformations (from the original geometric shape to get the tile):

o The top left orange shape was rotated about its top left corner
180°, then translated evenly downwards (on its y axis) as
translated to the right (on its x axis)
o The top right blue shape was rotated about its top right corner
180°, then translated evenly downwards (on its y axis) as
translated to the left (on its x axis)
o The bottom left pink shape was rotated about its bottom left
corner 180°, then translated evenly upwards (on its y axis) as
translated to the right (on its x axis)

o The bottom right green shape was rotated about its bottom right
corner 180°, then translated evenly upwards (on its y axis) as
translated to the left (on its x axis)

After all these transformation where made, the straight sides of


each shape that used to be an outer side of the square meet up at
the middle.

- Transformations (of the tile in the tessellation):

o The tile is placed on the top left of the page, then duplicated, and
translated to the left until its cut-out shape fit in the empty space
of the first tile.
o This is repeated 2 more times.
o The four tiles on the top row are then duplicated and translated
down until the bottom cut-out shape of the tiles on the top row fit
in the empty spaces of the bottom row tiles.
o This is repeated 4 more times.

- These transformations would create a tessellating shape, because the


parts where the original square was cut, is split into 4 pieces, meaning
the pattern on one of the shapes fit with two other shapes, so rotating
each shape and keeping them in the same position they are (according to
the other shapes, so the top left shape stays in the top left), allows it to
interlock with another tile the same as it.
How it Represents me (The pink one)
My tessellation represents me in several ways. Firstly, as my tessellation is
similar to a shape of a puzzle piece, it represents the way I fit in well with my
environment and the people around me. Additionally, the pink colour of the
tile represents my optimistic and positive view on life.

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