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Something Smells Fishy Around Here By: James

Tessellation Essay

You may be asking yourself, what is a tessellation? Well, a tessellation is when a shape is repeated over and over again covering a plane without any gaps or overlaps. There are three types of tessellations translation, rotation, and reflection. My essay will cover how I used these tessellations and what I learned. My tessellation was unique. Instead of using just one type of tessellation I used two. I used translation and reflection. Translation is when you move it up, down, left, and right, and reflection is when it flips on its axis to make a mirror image. My tessellation shifts and flips, so it’s next to each other and upside down. My theme for my tessellation is fish. I named my tessellation “Something smells fishy around here.” When I cut it and taped it, I couldn’t see anything. Then I saw a couple fins and lips. I used two colors, pink and purple. I used red for the cheeks, blue for stripes, and darker purple for the lips. Coloring was the most fun part. In my tessellation you can observe the two different ones I used. You can see translation because each image moved left, right, up and down. You can also view reflection because when the image slides left and right and flops horizontally, it is its mirror image. It is really cool all the different images are shown in tessellation.