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Adorning with mosaic
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tessellation
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In computer graphics , tessellation is used to manage datasets of polygons (sometimes called vertex sets ) presenting objects in a scene and divide them into suitable structures for rendering . Especially for real-time rendering , data is tessellated into ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the careful juxtaposition of shapes in a pattern; "a tessellation of hexagons" the act of adorning with mosaic
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The property or fact of tessellate. 2 (context countable English) A tiling pattern with no gaps; the result of tessellating an area or plane. 3 (context uncountable English) A less common name for polygon tessellation.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"minute arrangement of parts or colors," 1650s, noun of action from Late Latin tessellatus (see tessellated ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tessellation \Tes`sel*la"tion\, n. The act of tessellating; also, the mosaic work so formed. --J. Forsyth.
Usage examples of tessellation.
Conway may also have done some work on aperiodic four-dimensional and five-dimensional tessellations.
Formally, Perplexing Poultry was about the idea that space can be thought of as a quasicrystal, that is, as a nonrepeating tessellation of two kinds of polyhedral cell.
For several rooms in sequence we were confronted by questions related to tiling patterns - tessellations - while another sequence tested our understanding of cellular automata: odd chequerboard armies of shapes which obeyed simple rules and yet interacted in stunningly complex ways.
A tessellation of quatrefoils and blind multifoils ran riot at the roofline.
He lifted his gaze to the horizon, to the blue sea, its glittering tessellations flinging the sun back in his eyes.
Kapur perceived something like a sunflower, a fist of spirals and tessellations surrounded by "petals," great sheets of information which faded into the background chatter.