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Tessallation Project

A tessellation is a shape that repeats to fill a surface without gaps or overlaps. There are three regular tessellations using regular polygons: one made of triangles, one of squares, and one of hexagons. Artists often create tessellations, with M.C. Escher and Robert Ingalls being notable examples. Tessellations can be altered through translations, reflections, or rotations of the repeating shapes.

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Tessallation Project

A tessellation is a shape that repeats to fill a surface without gaps or overlaps. There are three regular tessellations using regular polygons: one made of triangles, one of squares, and one of hexagons. Artists often create tessellations, with M.C. Escher and Robert Ingalls being notable examples. Tessellations can be altered through translations, reflections, or rotations of the repeating shapes.

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Tessellations

What Is a Tessellation?
• A shape or tile that
repeats to fill a
surface without any
gaps or overlaps.

• The name comes from


the word tessella, the
small square tile used
in ancient Roman
mosaics.
What is a tessellation?
Formal definition: A careful juxtaposition of elements
into a coherent pattern sometimes called a mosaic or
tiling.

Simply put: A tessellation is like a puzzle that


repeats a particular pattern.

For example:
In nature and life, they appear often:

Honeycombs...

Mud flats...

In games, like checkers..


Patterns

• Very basic tessellations are simply a repeating


pattern.

• The rule is that you have to make sure that the


shapes fit together leaving no open space on the page.
Professional Tessellation
Designs

Sun and Moon Fish


M.C. Escher Robert Ingalls

• Many artists have created master works of art


using the simple rules of tessellations.
• M.C. Escher and Robert Ingalls are among many
tessellation artists.
• Can you you spot the repeating shape?
The mathematics of the
Regular Tessellation...

• A regular polygon tessellation is constructed from


regular polygons.

• Regular polygons have equal sides and equal angles.

• The regular polygons must fill the plane at each


vertex, with repeating patterns and no overlapping
pieces.

Note: this pentagon does not


fit into the vertex… therefore
it is not a regular tessellation.
A famous mathematician, Kepler studied
tessellations and noted the regular
tessellations or (tilings) of the plane.

There are only three regular tessellations;

one of triangles

one of squares

and one of hexagons.


This is NOT a regular polygon tessellation,
because...

vertex

The plane is not filled


at the vertex, because
space there is space left over.

A regular polygon tessellation, can be changed using


“alterations” to the sides of the polygon. These
alterations are called transformations.
Three Common Transformations

1. Translation, which is a slide of one side of the


polygon.

2. Reflection, which is a flip or mirror image of one


side of the polygon.

3. Rotation, which is a turn of a side around one


vertex of the polygon.
Translations - a slide
this side

the alteration moves here

Get practice template and try creating a translation….


Reflections - mirror images

the alteration

flips
here

Get practice template and try creating a reflection….


Rotations - turns

the alteration

here
rotates around
this vertex

Get practice template and try creating a rotation...

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