Honeycombs, some bathroom floors and designs by artist M.C. Escher have something in common: they are composed of repeating patterns of the same shape without any overlaps or gaps. This type of ...

We are going to tessellate some shapes but what is tessellation? It means to decorate or cover a surface with a pattern of repeated shapes, especially polygons, that fit together closely without gaps ...

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 ...