tesselation

What you see above is Triad 04, and a tesselation is that the right word? of the pattern, which is absolutely gorgeous.

KN | Kitsune Noir » Joaquim Nielsen 2009

By using the full symmetry group of the dodecahedron, constructing the tesselation used on the cover was relatively easy.

Wolfram Blog : 2007 : May 2007

By using the full symmetry group of the dodecahedron, constructing the tesselation used on the cover was relatively easy.

Wolfram Blog : Making the Mathematica 6 Spikey 2007

I think these structures are involved with quantum gravity, or in the lattice-tesselation of spacetime and AdS space.

Quantum Hyperion Sean 2008

Ah yes Devilish tesselation with the High Priestess, Grrrrr!

dear Subway… « raincoaster 2007

There was that other time that she had been so happy, when they had watched the fish-wives of Dunbar sitting on tubs under great flaring torches set in sconces on the wall behind them, gutting herrings that slid silver under their quick knives and left blood on their fingers that shone like a fluid jewel, raw-coloured to suit its wearers 'weathered rawness, and lay on the cobbles as a rich dark tesselation.

The Judge Rebecca West 1937

Here, peering down into a kind of dyke, paved with rough tesselation, we vied with each other in telling our charges that this was the old Roman road to Gaul, the Aurelian Way, over which Julius Cæsar, St. Catherine of Siena, Dante, and other great ones passed.

My Friend the Chauffeur Frederic [Illustrator] Lowenheim 1901

As she approached him across the tesselation of fish-scales, blood and saw-dust, he laid aside his cleaver and not unsympathetically asked:

Bunner Sisters Edith Wharton 1899

But since style is the expression of a living organism, not a problem of cunning tesselation, it is permissible, in this place, to pass over what he borrowed from the ancients, in order to deal with a more intimate matter, and to attempt a valuation of that which he borrowed from no one, either ancient or modern.

Milton Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891

Directly the reservoirs, the pavilions, and the tesselation about them were deserted.

The Prince of India — Volume 02 Lewis Wallace 1866