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tessellate [′tes·ə‚lāt] (botany) Marked by a pattern of small squares resembling a tiled pavement. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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And Icosaeder, a smaller wall piece, takes the compositional device a step further: Over a flat disc of tessellating triangles, Lachowicz has built an irregular, domelike lattice of the same sharp shapes. Can your students find tessellating shapes in the world around them? In the largest work at the Worcester Art Museum, the almost eighteen-foot-high Jack and Money in the Bank (all works 2004), van der Stokker fills a purple out-line reminiscent of a Carroll Dunham and another that suggests a border or coastline with tessellating patterns of red, green, and yellow squares. |
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