0 If shapes tessellate, they fit together completely, with no spaces between them. -- (ściśle) przylegać
Among regular figures (equal length sides, equal angles), there are just three shapes that tessellate in this way: squares, equilateral triangles and hexagons.
Although a regular tetrahedron can not tessellate space alone, this dual has identical disphenoid tetrahedron cells with isosceles triangle faces.
In botany, the term tessellate describes a checkered pattern, for example on a flower petal, tree bark, or fruit.
Micropolygon renderers commonly tessellate geometry themselves at a granularity suitable for the image being rendered.
The base of the shell contains 7 concentric cinguli, tessellated red and white.
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".
The sutural cingula are elevated, subundulate, spirally striate, and pallidly tessellate.
Any zonohedron formed in this way can tessellate 3-dimensional space and is called a primary parallelohedron.
