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  2. Tessellation - Wikipedia

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    Tessellated designs often appear on textiles, whether woven, stitched in, or printed. Tessellation patterns have been used to design interlocking motifs of patch shapes in quilts. [75] [76] Tessellations are also a main genre in origami (paper folding), where pleats are used to connect molecules, such as twist folds, together in a repeating ...

  3. Reptiles (M. C. Escher) - Wikipedia

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    Reptiles depicts a desk upon which is a two dimensional drawing of a tessellated pattern of reptiles and hexagons, Escher's 1939 Regular Division of the Plane. [2] [3] [1] The reptiles at one edge of the drawing emerge into three dimensional reality, come to life and appear to crawl over a series of symbolic objects (a book on nature, a geometer's triangle, a three dimensional dodecahedron, a ...

  4. Opus tessellatum - Wikipedia

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    There was a distinct native Italian style of opus tessellatum using only black on a white background, which was no doubt cheaper than fully coloured work. [ 2 ] Opus tessellatum is usually used for backgrounds consisting of horizontally or vertically arranged lines, but not both in a grid, which would be opus regulatum .

  5. List of tessellations - Wikipedia

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    Dual semi-regular Article Face configuration Schläfli symbol Image Apeirogonal deltohedron: V3 3.∞ : dsr{2,∞} Apeirogonal bipyramid: V4 2.∞ : dt{2,∞} Cairo pentagonal tiling

  6. Mosaics of Delos - Wikipedia

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    The composition of the Delos mosaics and pavements include simple pebble constructions, chip-pavement made of white marble, ceramic fragments, and pieces of tesserae. [2] [6] [13] The latter falls into two categories: the simpler, tessellated opus tessellatum using large pieces of tesserae, on average eight by eight millimeters, [14] and the finer opus vermiculatum using pieces of tesserae ...

  7. Tessera - Wikipedia

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    Tesserae of a mosaic of doves drinking at a golden basin, 1st century AD, National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy A tessera (plural: tesserae, diminutive tessella) is an individual tile, usually formed in the shape of a square, used in creating a mosaic.

  8. Cairo pentagonal tiling - Wikipedia

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    The union of all edges of a Cairo tiling is the same as the union of two tilings of the plane by hexagons.Each hexagon of one tiling surrounds two vertices of the other tiling, and is divided by the hexagons of the other tiling into four of the pentagons in the Cairo tiling. [4]

  9. Circle Limit III - Wikipedia

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    The (6,4,2) triangular hyperbolic tiling that inspired Escher. Escher became interested in tessellations of the plane after a 1936 visit to the Alhambra in Granada, Spain, [3] [4] and from the time of his 1937 artwork Metamorphosis I he had begun incorporating tessellated human and animal figures into his artworks.

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