"tessellation" is a correct and usable word in written English.
The word is used to describe the arrangement of shapes or figures that fit together in a repeating pattern. Example sentence: The intricate tessellation on the mosaic tile floor was inspired by traditional Islamic design.
Eno's hair, as I saw it on the cover, was dull and golden, part of a washed-out photo-booth tessellation in the style of Warhol.
Mr. Winters favors diamonds, which in some cases, as in "Tessellation Figures (9)," extend flatly all over the canvas.
In "Tessellation Figures (1)," mint-green diamonds in a big circle diminish in size toward an open center, creating a tunnel-like structure that sucks your gaze in toward a hazy, blue and green ovoid hovering in luminous, orange space.
Tessellation is a kind of patterning in which the units cover a surface without gaps or overlaps — a checkerboard, for example.
Elliott Sharp's "Tessellation Row" (1984) uses the Fibonacci series (in which the first two numbers are 0 and 1 and each subsequent number is the sum of the previous two) to generate rhythms, forms and tunings.
Instead, now there is baffling talk about things that improve visual performance like breathtaking tessellation, zippy transcoding speeds and DirectX 11 support — all of which will be highlighted by the chip makers at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, opening in Las Vegas on Thursday.
7. Tessellations: A geometric folding technique in which the image is created by the pattern of folded edges across the paper.
Tessellations are often periodic (repeating) and may be flat or three-dimensional, and many of them exhibit further structure when held up to the light.
In recent years, few British faces will have seen their likeness distorted in the mirrored tessellations on the walls and ceilings.
Further books on quilt history and techniques include The Quilter's Album of Blocks & Borders (1982), Medallion Quilts (1982), The Scrap Look (1985), Color Confidence for Quilters (1992), Soft-Edge Piecing (1995), and Designing Tessellations (1999); videos include Palettes for Patchwork (1987), Mastering Patchwork (1988), and Color Confidence! (1991).
Her drawings are more immediately engaging: rigorously geometric in the seventies, they became freer and more impulsive in her years of exile, and now take the form of grand tessellations that incorporate little reflective panels in their pinwheels of color and line.
