

The cats and the ducks are also "tiles" that translate/slide/glide left or right, up or down, to fill in the picture. Now take a look at the other pictures on this page. The original line XY is "translated" along the Y axis to make line X 1Y 1. Complex tessellations are those in which one or both of the rotation and. In math class, we'd say that we can move a line along a graph by saying "X=Y" for the original line and "X 1 + 4 = Y 1" for the line that would be 4 boxes above it on a piece of graph paper. Regular tessellations are made up entirely of congruent regular polygons all. So, why do we call it "translation"? Well, we call that movement a "translation" because we "translate" the tile along the X-axis and the Y-axis. This kind of tessellation symmetry- tile repeating- is called Translation and/or Sliding. The tiles in this picture are copies of one another that are simply shifted from one place to another, without tilting or flipping them over or resizing them. The tessellation is made by repeating the tile over and over again, and fitting all the copies of the tile together.

But, what about patterns like 'circle limits' that use. These are called 'isometric', which is a fancy way of saying that the tiles don't change size. We've already covered the types of symmetry that all tessellation experts agree upon: Translation, Reflection, Glide-Reflection, and Rotation. This is the basic "tile" shape of the first tessellation on this page. Escher paints a resizing spiral tessellation. A tessellation is created when a shape is repeated over and over again covering a plane without any gaps or overlaps.

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