tessellation
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The act of tessellating; also, the mosaic work so formed.
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a tessellation of hexagons
Around the same time period, Ron Resch patented some tessellation patterns as part of his explorations into kinetic sculpture and developable surfaces, although his work was not known by the origami community until the 1980s.
Since each Koch snowflake in the tessellation can be subdivided into seven smaller snowflakes of two different sizes, it is also possible to find tessellations that use more than two sizes at once. citation.
A space-filling tessellation is possible with congruent copies of any parallelepiped.
He wrote " Mathematicians have opened the gate leading to an extensive domain." citation Hexagonal tessellation with animals: Study of Regular Division of the Plane with Reptiles (1939).
However, such a tessellation is not possible using only snowflakes of one size.