tessellation

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A new study by mathematicians at Freie Universität Berlin shows that planar tiling, also known as tessellation, is far more than a decorative technique.

From Science Daily • Jan. 7, 2026

It was a microcosm for the tessellation Queeman saw in late '90s Harlem even if it wasn't painted with such nuance in national media at the time.

From Salon • May 1, 2023

The game’s graphics may seem dull at first, but can be picturesque, particularly with eye candy like depth of field, tessellation and sun shafts.

From The Verge • Feb. 17, 2021

Behind us not far was the view of Toledo, a low hump and a comparatively unaspiring tessellation of rooftops, seen from where El Greco did not see it that way.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 6, 2020

Verse- writers studied it carefully and used it cleverly, but never could make up for the want of free movement of hand by any laborious minuteness of tessellation.

From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by Mackail, J. W. (John William)