Honeycombs, some bathroom floors and designs by artist M.C. Escher have something in common: they are composed of repeating patterns of the same shape without any overlaps or gaps. This type of ...

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 ...

Instructions for folding Madonna Yoder’s Dancing Ribbons tessellation. Download the pattern for Dancing Ribbons here. Yoder recommends printing the pattern on paper in between normal printer paper and ...