"In its most general form, a tessellation is a covering of the plane with shapes. Often the shapes are polygons and the pattern is in some sense repetitive. a tessellation is regular if it consists of congruent regular polygons...."So your floor tile is an example of a tessellation. There are artists who play with the idea and some of their works are quite cool. Check out M. C. Escher for a prime example of this.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
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In answer to the question what is a tessellation let's turn to The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics by Christopher Clapham, p. 276.
