Transcript Tesselations

Tessellations
Repeating shapes and patterns
that completely cover a plane
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
Tessellations
• Some shapes, or polygons, will tessellate
and others will not.
• They can be created easily using squares,
equilateral triangles, and hexagons.
Make Your Own
• Draw three 1/2
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faces on the inside
edges of one
triangle.
The faces should all
be different
All three faces
should face in a
different direction
Make Your Own
• Darken your lines
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with a pen
Fold your paper in
half
Trace your faces
onto the second
triangle
Should be an exact
copy
Make Your Own
• Cut out your 12
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rhombus shapes as
carefully as possible
Practice laying out
your design before
you glue
Glue shapes down
carefully