tessellation
Example Sentences
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The tiles in the Alhambra, which Escher described studying, for instance, transform into some of his well-known tessellations.
From Los Angeles Times
But logic also overlooks the weird, intangible voodoo of what Klopp already has, the way those combinations seem to have evolved out of some perfect tessellation of strengths.
From The Guardian
Others rise and fall in a tessellation of triangles with sharp, jewel-like edges, their vertices multiplying.
From New York Times
Dancers at cotillion balls spin figures across the floor, while the floor itself may be figured with parquet patterns, that mathematicians study as “tessellations.”
From Washington Post
All these natural patterns may be modeled with a mathematical technique known as a Voronoi tessellation.
From Scientific American
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