Tessellations Alexander Alvarez
A tessellation is a repeating pattern of figures that completely covers a plane without gaps or overlaps.
We can find tessellations in every day life
Is this a tessellation? What geometric figure is repeated?
If you look carefully…
You will see a tessellation
The repeated figure is an hexagon!
Tessellations are everywhere!
Here we have a rectangle
Fabrics contain tessellations
In this fabric the pattern is a rhombus
Look closely, what do you see?
A rhombus that tessellates
Pure Tessellation a tessellation that consists of congruent copies of one figure.
This pure tessellation is formed by three joined hexagons The only figures that form pure tessellations are triangles, quadrilaterals and regular hexagons
Quadrilaterals tessellate
Rectangles form pure tessellations
Is this a tessellation? Yes, it is formed by triangles, squares and trapezoids.
Is this picture a pure tessellation?
No, there are gabs between the circles
Is this a tessellation?
No, there are gaps between the leaves
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