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Tessellation
A tessellation or tiling is the covering of a surface, often a plane, using one or more geometric shapes, called ''tiles'', with no overlaps and no gaps. In mathematics, tessellation can be generalized to higher dimensions and a variety of geometries. A periodic tiling has a repeating pattern. Some special kinds include '' regular tilings'' with regular polygonal tiles all of the same shape, and '' semiregular tilings'' with regular tiles of more than one shape and with every corner identically arranged. The patterns formed by periodic tilings can be categorized into 17 wallpaper groups. A tiling that lacks a repeating pattern is called "non-periodic". An '' aperiodic tiling'' uses a small set of tile shapes that cannot form a repeating pattern (an aperiodic set of prototiles). A '' tessellation of space'', also known as a space filling or honeycomb, can be defined in the geometry of higher dimensions. A real physical tessellation is a tiling made of materials such as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regular Tilings
This article lists the regular polytopes in Euclidean geometry, Euclidean, spherical geometry, spherical and hyperbolic geometry, hyperbolic spaces. Overview This table shows a summary of regular polytope counts by rank. There are no Euclidean regular star tessellations in any number of dimensions. 1-polytopes There is only one polytope of rank 1 (1-polytope), the closed line segment bounded by its two endpoints. Every realization of this 1-polytope is regular. It has the Schläfli symbol , or a Coxeter diagram with a single ringed node, . Norman Johnson (mathematician), Norman Johnson calls it a ''dion'' and gives it the Schläfli symbol . Although trivial as a polytope, it appears as the Edge (geometry), edges of polygons and other higher dimensional polytopes. It is used in the definition of prism (geometry), uniform prisms like Schläfli symbol ×, or Coxeter diagram as a Cartesian product of a line segment and a regular polygon. 2-polytopes (polygons) The polytopes o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
