HOW TO MAKE A TESSELLATION:
Using Many Tiles
The gap method always gives us pictures with more than 1 motif.
Is there another way to get tessellations with 2 or more tile shapes?
Well, yes. You can always divide up a shape that is already tessellating into as many parts as you like.
The difficulty is to make each part a good recognizable shape.
1. Take a shape. A hexagon with opposite sides and angles equal will always tessellate even if sides are dented inwards (concave) like this...
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