Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Geometry week 4

This week we learned about tiling. We learned that there is regular tiling which is using only one regular polygon to make 360 degrees at the vertex. There are also semi regular tiling- which is when it takes more than one regular polygon to create  360 degrees at the vertex.
There are only three regular polygons that fit into the category of regular tiling, those three shapes are triangles, squares and hexagons.
Here is an example of what Regular tiling looks like:

Here is what the difference looks like when the tiling is semi regular:


A good way to tell if it is it semi regular or regular, is semi regular requires more than one type of shape to make it fill up a blank page when repeating the shapes.

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