Among regular figures (equal length sides, equal angles), there are just three shapes thattessellatein this way: squares, equilateral triangles and hexagons.
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Although a regular tetrahedron can nottessellatespace alone, this dual has identical disphenoid tetrahedron cells with isosceles triangle faces.
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In botany, the termtessellatedescribes a checkered pattern, for example on a flower petal, tree bark, or fruit.
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Micropolygon renderers commonlytessellategeometry themselves at a granularity suitable for the image being rendered.
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The base of the shell contains 7 concentric cinguli, tessellated red and white.
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If a geometric shape can be used as a prototile to create a tessellation, the shape is said to "tessellate" or to "tile the plane".
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The sutural cingula are elevated, subundulate, spirally striate, and pallidlytessellate.
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Any zonohedron formed in this way cantessellate3-dimensional space and is called a primary parallelohedron.
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It cantessellatespace in the stellated rhombic dodecahedral honeycomb.
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Infinite forms can be extended totessellatea hyperbolic space.
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A zero angle defect willtessellatespace of the same dimension as the facets.
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The marble floor (12th century, but underwent many restorations) is entirely tessellated in geometric patterns and animal designs.
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The base of the shell is generally tessellated or striped with white.
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It can be used totessellatethree-dimensional space, making the triakis truncated tetrahedral honeycomb.
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The base of the shell is convex, radiately strigate or finelytessellatewith brown.
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