tessellate

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fit together exactly, of identical shapes

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tile with tesserae

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Guided by the idea of developing an edge-based tessellation algorithm that avoids cracks, Ulrich described some edge-based patterns for tessellating triangles [43].
The sport is often entwined with an idea of aesthetic perfection, and Longhust shows this with Pinnacle, a floor to ceiling installation of framed tessellating photographs of fragile upwardly thrusting legs.
This book focuses on small-scale design, arranging 35 fantastic experimental projects in sections pertaining to methods of fabrication: sectioning, tessellating, folding, contouring, and forming.
Students then created their own unique tessellating shape based on a square, rectangle or rhombus.
Tessellating patterns can bring a quilt alive, offering new changes to experiment with design and color.
Another angle of attack would be to apply a "top down" approach instead, or maybe a combination, first identifying all planes, then tessellating with the footprint and this set of planes as restrictions.
Using these magnetic pattern blocks made it easier for me to demonstrate ideas to my class, such as how to use different combinations of pattern blocks to fill in outlines with the same area, or how to use the blocks to make beautiful tessellating designs.
Wears revolting golf shirts with tessellating patterns, waddles pompously up the fairway and lists his hobbies as kicking in children's sandcastles, throwing eggs at old ladies from his car and burning the Union Jack.
Her practice of tessellating the air ends up creating its own kind of density, just as we find in one of those small paper weavings.
With such busy tessellating textiles, it makes sense to keep the rest of your outfit on the minimal side, so pick one muted tone from your Bauhaus print - cream, maroon or khaki, say - and match block colour separates accordingly.
Some of it is based on templates of girih tiles, a set of five tessellating shapes that have sides of the same length and angles that are multiples of 36[degrees]
Given this daily routine of tessellating commitments and the alchemy of finding an extra five minutes, how and why do we decide to involve ourselves with volunteering; an act which gives up time, for the benefit of others, without material or financial reward?
Using pattern blocks, they made representations of tessellations as the teacher circulated throughout the classroom and asked mathematical questions such as "What is the tessellating unit?
I cannot imagine an effective space-filling game based on tetrahedrons, nor a tessellating game based on hexagons.
Some feature a tessellating pattern of players' numbers; others are more abstract.