HOW TO MAKE A TESSELLATION:
Slice Method Example 1

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For our first "slice method" tessellation, let's do a very simple example.

1. Start with a shape that we know tessellates - in this case, a square^* ...

^*(but we cold have instead used a kite shape, a diamond, a hexagon, an equilateral triangle, or one of a hundred other basic shapes that tessellate)