- tessellation of plane
- мат.замощение плоскости правильными многоугольниками
English-Russian scientific dictionary. 2008.
English-Russian scientific dictionary. 2008.
Tessellation — A tessellation of pavement A honeycomb is an example of a t … Wikipedia
tessellation — noun a) The property or fact of tessellating. Squares can be used for tessellation. b) A tiling pattern with no gaps; the result of tessellating an area or plane. This is a tessellation of the plane with squares and regular octagons. See Also:… … Wiktionary
tessellation — tessellate ► VERB 1) (often as adj. tessellated) decorate (a floor) with mosaics. 2) Mathematics cover (a plane surface) by repeated use of a single shape. DERIVATIVES tessellation noun. ORIGIN Latin tessellare, from tessera … English terms dictionary
tessellation — noun Date: 1660 1. a. mosaic b. a covering of an infinite geometric plane without gaps or overlaps by congruent plane figures of one type or a few types 2. an act of tessellating ; the state of being tessellated … New Collegiate Dictionary
Uniform tessellation — In mathematics, a uniform tessellation is a tessellation of a d dimensional space, or a (hyper)surface, such that all its vertices are identical, i.e., there is the same combination and arrangement of faces at each vertex.They can be named by a… … Wikipedia
Regular Division of the Plane — is a series of drawings by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher which began in 1936. These images are based on the principle of tessellation, irregular shapes or combinations of shapes that interlock completely to cover a surface or plane.The… … Wikipedia
semiregular tessellation — noun A tessellation of the plane by two or more different convex regular polygons. Syn: Archimedean tessellation See Also: regular tessellation … Wiktionary
regular tessellation — noun A tessellation of the plane by a convex regular polygon. See Also: semiregular tessellation … Wiktionary
Tiling by regular polygons — Plane tilings by regular polygons have been widely used since antiquity. The first systematic mathematical treatment was that of Kepler in Harmonices Mundi . Regular tilings Following Grünbaum and Shephard (section 1.3), a tiling is said to be… … Wikipedia
Wallpaper group — A wallpaper group (or plane symmetry group or plane crystallographic group) is a mathematical classification of a two dimensional repetitive pattern, based on the symmetries in the pattern. Such patterns occur frequently in architecture and… … Wikipedia
Voronoi diagram — The Voronoi diagram of a random set of points in the plane (all points lie within the image). In mathematics, a Voronoi diagram is a special kind of decomposition of a given space, e.g., a metric space, determined by distances to a specified… … Wikipedia