Thursday, January 21, 2010

Angels II

Another reason why this picture has to do with math is because it has reflections of the objects in the picture. Tessellations are seen throughout art history, from ancient architecture to modern art. A regular tessellation is a highly symmetric tessellation made up of congruent regular polygons. Only three regular tessellations exist: those made up of equilateral triangles, squares, or hexagons.
Example of a tessellation-
Lindsey

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