TESSELLATION
Tessellation
A tessellation 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.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Tessellation
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tessellation
Noun
- The property or fact of tessellating.
- Squares can be used for tessellation.
- A tiling pattern with no gaps; the result of tessellating an area or plane.
- This is a tessellation of the plane with squares and regular octagons.
- A less common name for polygon tessellation.
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