A tessellation is a pattern of shapes that tiles
a plane with no gaps and no overlaps. Each of the six shapes available in this
tool are able to tessellate. That is, you can arrange multiple copies of any of
the shapes to completely cover the plane.
But is it possible to do that with some combination of shapes? The image
above shows one possible arrangement of yellow hexagons and red trapezoids.
- Can you use only orange squares and green triangles to create a regular
pattern that tessellates?
- What about yellow hexagons and orange squares?
- …red trapezoids and blue parallelograms?
- …blue parallelograms and pink rhombi?