1-1-1-1
This is the first pattern in the Library. All other patterns derive from this one. This is the only single-shape tessellation in the Library. One shape fits against itself to fill the plane perfectly.
Shape 1
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1-1-1-2
The twenty-eight patterns you’ve just seen are Regular tessellations — symmetrical, orderly, each one a mirror of itself in some direction. They are, in their way, perfect. But perfection accounts for only twenty-eight of the five hundred and twelve possible patterns this system can generate. What about the other four hundred and eighty-four? They don’t…
