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Tessellations : “Elves shape shifting into Garden Gnomes!” By: Mariah

For this project the theme of it was Tessellations. A tessellation is an endless pattern made of the same shape. The pattern that my tessellation made was a Garden gnome, or and elf it depends on your own perception. Tessellations have been used for 1,000's of years now. The tessellation that I choose for this project was the rotation tessellation. The rotation tessellation is when the figure that is drawn moves in circles from each other rather than it moving next to or across from each other. Also making the template for the rotation tessellation figure is different. To complete the tessellation design and the entire figure itself on the paper I had to go threw many cautious steps. The first step was to get a small equally square piece of paper and draw cool shaped lines from the left and right corners to the other corners, leaving two sides blank. Then I need to cut on the line and tap it onto the rotated sides. Once that part was all situated, it was time to trace a figure into the middle of the graphed paper. Once one was drawn I rotated each figure to the other sides and traced them there, so that way it rotated in circles each time. The hats of the figure each touch together in the middle. Transformations were observed in the design vividly. When you glance at the figures you can see the figure rotating into circles around each other. The transformation of my design was clearly rotation and worked out swiftly. In conclusion to this project the figures of the transformation rotation tessellation worked out very nicely. The final product of the project was executed swiftly. I am proud that this tessellation turned out so nice.