"Tessellate" redirects here. For the song, see Tessellate (song). For the computer graphics technique, see Tessellation (computer graphics). A tessellation or tiling is the covering of a surface, often a plane, using one or more geometric shapes, called tiles, with no overlaps and no gaps. In mathematics, tessellation can be generalized to higher dimensions and a variety of geometries. A periodic
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