13.4 Tessellations of the Plane

Examples: tiling of a floor or mosaics.

Def. Tessellation—the filling of the plane with repetitions of figures in such a way that no figures overlap and there are no gaps.

Regular tessellations (Figure)

→ triangles (3)

→ hexagons (6)

How many regular tessellations exist?

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