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 ...

A tessellation or tiling is a way to cover something, usually a flat two-dimensional surface, by shapes that fit together perfectly so there are no gaps. Usually when people think about tessellations, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Tessellations of ${\mathbb{R}^3}$ that use convex polyhedral cells to fill the space can be extremely complicated. This is especially so for ...

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics is a public voice of mathematics education, providing vision, leadership, and professional development to support teachers in ensuring mathematics ...

Like so many Western printmakers, Michael Hagan is taken with Japan's wood block tradition. "Tessellations, Tentacles and Tattoo," Hagan's show at Washington Printmakers Gallery, includes geishas and ...

Graphic artist Sam Kerr's tessellating mosaics – featuring birds, rabbits and dogs – are highly fashionable right now. Here he gives tips on how to create your own Mathematics has never been so ...

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 ...