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Math Lessons : Tessellations (How to Make it with Your PC) Posted: 10 Oct 2010 04:10 AM PDT Recently, my math teacher gave me a task about “Tessellations”. Do you know what is the definition of the Tessellations? Based on my book, tessellation is a repeating pattern of figures that completely covers a plane without any gaps or overlaps. Tessellations are also called tillings. Examples: In this post, I will write about “How To Make a Tessellations with Your Computer” You can use a simple picture editing, such as paint. But I recommend to use a Win7 Paint. Its more customizable. Wndows 7 Paint Interface Steps: Open your paint (of course you have to ) Use combination of shapes if you want make tessellations from the available shapes from paint Before make the tessellations, better if you color it. After you color it, lets make the tessellation. Use the select method -> transparent selection Select the picture then copy-paste it to make a tessellation You can re-size, rotate, and flip it. Copy paste it to fill your tessellation, like this : Finish. You can save your tessellation or make a new tessellation again Some tessellations by me  : (click to enlarge)

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