1. Repeating shapes and patterns that completely cover a plane
Tessellations
Repeating shapes and patterns that completely cover a plane

3. Tessellations Comes from Latin word tessella
Small square stones or tiles used in ancient Roman mosaics
A plane tessellation is a pattern made up of one or more shapes, completely covering a surface with no gaps or overlaps
Occur in nature - honeycombs

11. Tessellations
Some shapes, or polygons, will tessellate and others will not.
They can be created easily using squares, equilateral triangles, and hexagons.

12. Make Your Own
Draw three 1/2 faces on the inside edges of one triangle.
The faces should all be different
All three faces should face in a different direction

13. Make Your Own Darken your lines with a pen Fold your paper in half
Trace your faces onto the second triangle
Should be an exact copy

14. Make Your Own Cut out your 12 rhombus shapes as carefully as possible
Practice laying out your design before you glue
Glue shapes down carefully