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Quiz: tessellate this!
Tessellations -- those gapless, mesmerizing mosaics of defined shapes -- pop up everywhere once you know what you're looking for. You can find them under microscopes, radiating from sunflowers and even in the hallowed halls of art museums.
n their simplest form, tessellations consist of a single shape that repeats over a two-dimensional plane without any gaps. What can you tell us about these awesome repeating patterns?
Show what you know at HowStuffWorks.com.
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