9-4 Tesselations

• Tesselation is a pattern of polygons that

cover a plane.
MC Escher
• regular tesselation: uses one type of
regular polygon.

• A regular polygon will tesselate ONLY IF

the measure of one of the interior angles
is a factor of 360°
• A tesselation is “uniform” if every single
vertex includes the same shapes meeting
together.
• non-uniform the vertices do not have the
same number or type of shapes meeting
up
• A tesselation that uses more than one
type of regular polygon is called semi-
regular
 Remember:
• In a tessellation, all of the angles around
any vertex add up to…

360°