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tessellating? tesselation?
means.....????
I have never heard of this term and am just not into looking up and reading words that will fall on deaf eyes today. ~KK in BC~ **I have not fallen off the face of the earth, I have been very oddly sick with we haven't figured out what yet. Home life has been a shambles and plumbing problems make rather mess flood situations just after we got past the floods that happened a short while ago. Aint life Grand? ........... I am pretty sure I could write a book on what you don't want to happen to you in a span of 2 months from health to home. |
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tessellating? tesselation?
Tesse comes from the Latin form for tiling, as in mosaic. Mathematically
it's like angles forming a whole.......if you're a quilter it's a like shape interlocking, sort of like a jigsaw puzzle. Visual aids are better than words Here's a picture of a tessellated leaf patterned quilt.... http://www.quiltshop.ca/classes.html ....scroll down the page to "TESSELLATING LEAVES". Val "~KK in BC~" wrote in message news:c0myi.3130$vP5.105@edtnps90... means.....???? I have never heard of this term and am just not into looking up and reading words that will fall on deaf eyes today. ~KK in BC~ **I have not fallen off the face of the earth, I have been very oddly sick with we haven't figured out what yet. Home life has been a shambles and plumbing problems make rather mess flood situations just after we got past the floods that happened a short while ago. Aint life Grand? ........... I am pretty sure I could write a book on what you don't want to happen to you in a span of 2 months from health to home. |
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tessellating? tesselation?
means.....????
I have never heard of this term and am just not into looking up and reading words that will fall on deaf eyes today. It means covering a surface with lots of copies of a few shapes. Also known as "tiling". A good basic intro in pictures: http://www.coolmath.com/tesspag1.htm Lots more at http://mathforum.org/sum95/suzanne/tess.intro.html http://42explore.com/teslatn.htm etc etc... don't go there unless you have a whole evening (or maybe lifetime) free... ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 |
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tessellating? tesselation?
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:33:28 GMT, "~KK in BC~"
wrote: means.....???? I have never heard of this term and am just not into looking up and reading words that will fall on deaf eyes today. Tessellation means "tiling", basically using one shape over and over in a way that doesn't leave empty spaces. Hexagons tessellate. So do squares and triangles, apple-core shapes, jigsaw-puzzle pieces, plus sign shapes, and M.C. Escher's lizards. Five-sided pieces don't tessellate, and neither do circles. Jinny Beyer's book _Designing Tessellations_ is really neat for people like me who like both mathematics and quilting. Louise, in Kingston Ontario |
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tessellating? tesselation?
The inestimable Jinny Beyer has a wonderful book on tesselation and defines
a "tile" as a single unit that can be repeated with no breaks across a flat surface. So a square or diamond shape would work, for example. The book shows how she designs tesselating shapes, including print designs for fabric. Fun to read! Roberta in D "~KK in BC~" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:c0myi.3130$vP5.105@edtnps90... means.....???? I have never heard of this term and am just not into looking up and reading words that will fall on deaf eyes today. ~KK in BC~ **I have not fallen off the face of the earth, I have been very oddly sick with we haven't figured out what yet. Home life has been a shambles and plumbing problems make rather mess flood situations just after we got past the floods that happened a short while ago. Aint life Grand? ........... I am pretty sure I could write a book on what you don't want to happen to you in a span of 2 months from health to home. |
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