3D Surface Tessellations made from Real Materials

This section shows some tessellations using actual materials (not digital art nor just flat paper) such as wood, resin, textiles, ceramics, etc. If you have made a tessellation like this we would love to hear from you! Please send us a photo and description of your tessellation. We'll post it on this website, in this gallery. We will give you credit and you retain full rights. Click below to see the individual projects.

Note: The more recent the art, the closer it is to the top of this list.

• 60 Seahorse Dodecahedron' - Papercraft dodecahedron (globe made from 12 pentagons) tessellation by Webmaster Seth
• 12 Sea Turtle Octahedron' - Papercraft octahedron (globe made from 8 triangles) tessellation by Webmaster Seth
• '24 Goldfish Octahedron' - Papercraft octahedron (globe made from 8 triangles) tessellation by Webmaster Seth
• '12 Goldfish Cube' - Papercraft or cardboard box by Webmaster Seth
• 'World Map Icosahedron' - Paper icosahedron (globe made from 20 triangles) by guest artist Bruce Bilney
• 'Ozzi-Cube 1' - Paper cube (box) with a kangaroo-and-Australian-continent theme, by guest artist Bruce Bilney
• 'Tetra-Roos' - Paper tetrahedron (pyramid) with a kangaroo motif, created by guest artist Bruce Bilney
• 'Wooden Sphere' - carved and stained wooden ball by guest artist Tamas Szegeti
• 'Five Cats, a Dodecahedron' - An easy-to-make 12-sided 3D paper project.
• 'Clown Ball' - drawn on cardboard 12-sided sphere made of pentagons
• Lego™ toy plastic brick tessellations by Brendan Powell Smith
• '6 Gold Fish Sphere' - modelled in polymer clay - by Webmaster Seth
• 'Snuffles' - Yorkshire Terrier painted on hard rubber ball - Doctor David
• 'Woodpeckers' - carved on resin ball - by Doctor David
• 'Cat theme Tessellation carved in a sphere' - Carved ball by Doctor David