tessellation

tiling of a plane using one or more geometric shapes, called tiles, with no overlaps and no gaps
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tessellation

Summary

tessellation is an artistic technique[1]. tessellation ranks in the top 5% of artistic_technique entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,126 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • tessellation's image is recorded as Wallpaper group-p3-1.jpg[3].
  • tessellation's image is recorded as Ceramic Tile Tessellations in Marrakech.jpg[4].
  • tessellation's image is recorded as Leeuwarden - Tegeltableau Escher.jpg[5].
  • tessellation's instance of is recorded as artistic technique[6].
  • tessellation's GND ID is recorded as 4126296-7[7].
  • tessellation's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85134138[8].
  • tessellation's subclass of is recorded as polytope[9].
  • tessellation's subclass of is recorded as cover[10].
  • tessellation's Commons category is recorded as Tilings[11].
  • tessellation's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01vll5[12].
  • tessellation's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph1247622[13].
  • tessellation's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Tessellation[14].
  • tessellation's Commons gallery is recorded as Tiling[15].
  • tessellation's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300265619[16].
  • tessellation's Library of Congress Classification is recorded as QA166.8[17].
  • tessellation's facet of is recorded as discrete geometry[18].
  • tessellation's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://mathoverflow.net/tags/tiling[19].
  • tessellation's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00076643n[20].
  • tessellation's MathWorld ID is recorded as Tessellation[21].
  • tessellation's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as tessellations[22].
  • tessellation's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[23].
  • tessellation's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 97002563[24].
  • tessellation's Australian Educational Vocabulary ID is recorded as scot/6565[25].
  • tessellation's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007531732305171[26].
  • tessellation's KBpedia ID is recorded as Tessellation[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for tessellation include tessellated pavement[28], in Australia[29].

Why It Matters

tessellation ranks in the top 5% of artistic_technique entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,126 views/month).[2] tessellation has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] tessellation is known by 56 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for tessellation include tessellated pavement[28], in Australia[29].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
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  11. [13] . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . National Library of Israel. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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