Tiling the plane with regular polygons (Regular tilings)
There are only three regular tilings of the plane: by equilateral triangles, by squares, and by regular hexagons. But we can exploit these to make beautiful patterns.
Here's another way these regular tilings are used. Surprising!
Semiregular tilings (tessellations) of the plane; here is another source (from Math Forum)
Frieze patterns: Conway's naming convention
translation symmetry
More here (EscherMath)
Exercises attached to EscherMath
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