This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Look at giraffe’s fur and you’ll see a ...

This is a whole lesson looking at Tessellation. In particular, the lesson looks at how to tessellate regular and semi-regular shapes as well as why some shapes tessellate and others do not, linking to ...

In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is much more than a way to create a pretty pattern. Consisting of a surface ...

Surface tessellations are an arrangement of shapes which are tightly fitted, and form repeat patterns on a surface without overlapping. Imagine the pattern of a giraffe's fur, the shell of a tortoise ...