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.

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
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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.

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...

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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

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.