A “tessellation” is the tiling of a plane using one or more geometric shapes, called tiles, with no overlaps and no gaps. Examples of tessellations in nature include honeycombs, flower petals, tree bark, or fruit. I sometimes use some of my images showing non-linear non-symmetric structure and then arrange them in tessellations by reorienting the same image in four different orientations and then combining them. That is one order of tessellation. I can repeat that as many times as feasible (2nd order, 3rd order etc.) with the structure of the resultant image becoming more and more symmetric and detailed.
Tessellations
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