When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Honeycombs, some bathroom floors and designs by artist M.C. Escher have something in common: they ...

We are going to tessellate some shapes but what is tessellation? It means to decorate or cover a surface with a pattern of repeated shapes, especially polygons, that fit together closely without gaps ...

You may be familiar with origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, but chances are you haven’t come across smocking. This technique refers to the way fabric can be bunched by stitches, often made in ...

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 ...