In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is much more than a way to create a pretty pattern. Consisting of a surface ...

Surface tessellations are an arrangement of shapes which are tightly fitted, and form repeat patterns on a surface without overlapping. Imagine the pattern of a giraffe's fur, the shell of a tortoise ...

A tessellation, or tiling pattern, can be repeated endlessly without showing any seams or obvious empty areas. Many such patterns are freely available online; creating your own, though, could help you ...

Instructions for folding Madonna Yoder’s Dancing Ribbons tessellation. Download the pattern for Dancing Ribbons here. Yoder recommends printing the pattern on paper in between normal printer paper and ...

This article is part of the Electronics History series: The Graphics Chip Chronicles. The Radeon 8500 AIB launched by ATI in August 2001 used a 150-nm manufacturing process, for its R200 GPU, ...