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  • verb Present participle of tessellate.

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Examples

  • Mr. Danella began his painting career creating Paul Klee-inspired abstractions, including the small, substantial figurative gouache "Nail Biter" (1955) and the ambitious, tessellating "magic square" painting "Sunday Afternoon" (1951).

    Playing With Sand, Wind and Fire Lance Esplund 2011

  • Building on Paul Cézanne's late work, Braque's tessellating Cubist forms and close colors shimmer, dismantling, dissolving and reconfiguring the perceived world.

    A Modern Movement Unto Himself Lance Esplund 2011

  • That cut and taped paper was then used as a tracing template to create an interlocking tessellating pattern.

    Fibonacci Patterns James Gurney 2010

  • Even fourth graders could construct impressive tessellating shapes from paper squares and rectangles regular polygons by cutting out a piece and sliding it directly to the opposite side.

    Fibonacci Patterns James Gurney 2010

  • Filed under: Knitting — Anna @ 4: 06 pm. .which is making me dizzy with desire to knit the tessellating fish!

    I have this thing for the sea… « Knit-Write 2006

  • Legal Karen is sitting right there at her side, tessellating with her, learning about glottal stops with her, breathing out with her as they try to say go away without the fricative bump in the middle.

    Absolute Friends Le Carre, John, 1931- 2003

  • While tessellation in current DX11 games is limited to certain situations (for example in Dirt 2 tessellation is applied to the crowds watching the races as well as the water), it will become more and more common to apply these effects in future games once tessellating hardware becomes more prevalent.

    PC Perspective Articles Feed 2010

  • While tessellation in current DX11 games is limited to certain situations (for example in Dirt 2 tessellation is applied to the crowds watching the races as well as the water), it will become more and more common to apply these effects in future games once tessellating hardware becomes more prevalent.

    PC Perspective Articles Feed 2010

  • While tessellation in current DX11 games is limited to certain situations (for example in Dirt 2 tessellation is applied to the crowds watching the races as well as the water), it will become more and more common to apply these effects in future games once tessellating hardware becomes more prevalent.

    PC Perspective Articles Feed 2010

  • With British t-shirt company T-Book's tessellating expressions of love and the German Puma designer Peter Schmid's high and low-tops, these may be the most romantic kicks out there.

    Cool Hunting 2009

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