Tessalating Flowers easy and fun
10-08-2011, 04:39 AM
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That's a BEAUTY - love the colors & the pattern.....
However, guess my age is REALLY showing this AM, I had no idea what "Tessalating" is. :oops: After trying to look it up, I couldn't find it in a dictionary or thesaurus, but googled it & found this meaning -
"Tessellation - A tiling of regular polygons (in two dimensions), polyhedra (three dimensions), or polytopes (n dimensions) is called a tessellation. Tessellations can be specified using a Schläfli symbol. The breaking up of self-intersecting polygons into simple polygons is also called tessellation (Woo et al. 1999), or more properly, polygon tessellation."
Now I still have no idea what all THAT means, (a MATH site showed up & when I went to school - it seems a 100 yrs ago - they didn't even require algebra in HS) :cry:
But just looking at it, it looks like it means regular patterns of shapes fitting snugly together (all quilt patterns to me).
Anyway, guess this is my "try to learn something new each day" lesson for today - won't remember all that fancy meaning, but will remember the beauty of putting all those pieces in the quilt together. :lol:
Have a blessed week end & may all your quilts be filled w/LOVE
However, guess my age is REALLY showing this AM, I had no idea what "Tessalating" is. :oops: After trying to look it up, I couldn't find it in a dictionary or thesaurus, but googled it & found this meaning -
"Tessellation - A tiling of regular polygons (in two dimensions), polyhedra (three dimensions), or polytopes (n dimensions) is called a tessellation. Tessellations can be specified using a Schläfli symbol. The breaking up of self-intersecting polygons into simple polygons is also called tessellation (Woo et al. 1999), or more properly, polygon tessellation."
Now I still have no idea what all THAT means, (a MATH site showed up & when I went to school - it seems a 100 yrs ago - they didn't even require algebra in HS) :cry:
But just looking at it, it looks like it means regular patterns of shapes fitting snugly together (all quilt patterns to me).
Anyway, guess this is my "try to learn something new each day" lesson for today - won't remember all that fancy meaning, but will remember the beauty of putting all those pieces in the quilt together. :lol:
Have a blessed week end & may all your quilts be filled w/LOVE
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