tessellation
noun
tes·sel·la·tion
ˌte-sə-ˈlā-shən 
1
a
: mosaic
b
: a covering of an infinite geometric plane without gaps or overlaps by congruent plane figures of one type or a few types
2
: an act of tessellating : the state of being tessellated
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The 1440p Aztec Ruins and 1080p Car Chase tests, which are rendered offscreen to accommodate different display resolutions, exercise graphics and compute shaders using the OpenGL programming interface and hardware tessellation respectively.
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PCMAG, 27 Mar. 2024
These all converge into a brightly colored tessellation of figures that taper and fade into the background noise.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
Those molecules then connect to each other via hydrogen bonds, creating a tessellation of polygons.
—Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2023
So from the front, there’s a tessellation that goes around the frame.
—Elizabeth Myong, Dallas News, 6 Sep. 2023
The transformation has been so recent and total that the fastest-growing suburbs in Loudoun tend to resemble architectural renderings of themselves: arteries of immaculate asphalt lined with evenly spaced cherry saplings, tessellations of residential subdivisions with near-identical fake colonials.
—Charles Homans, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
In the current work, Pisani and her colleagues tailored their Voronoi tessellations to identify about 6,000 voids in the data from an enormous galactic mapping project called the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS).
—Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 25 July 2023
Doris Schattschneider, a retired mathematician affiliated with Moravian University with expertise in tessellations, had been skeptical about the likelihood of a true einstein ever being discovered.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 22 June 2023
Each tessellation should plot to exactly one point within the plane.
—Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2023
PCMAG, 27 Mar. 2024
These all converge into a brightly colored tessellation of figures that taper and fade into the background noise.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
Those molecules then connect to each other via hydrogen bonds, creating a tessellation of polygons.
—Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2023
So from the front, there’s a tessellation that goes around the frame.
—Elizabeth Myong, Dallas News, 6 Sep. 2023
The transformation has been so recent and total that the fastest-growing suburbs in Loudoun tend to resemble architectural renderings of themselves: arteries of immaculate asphalt lined with evenly spaced cherry saplings, tessellations of residential subdivisions with near-identical fake colonials.
—Charles Homans, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
In the current work, Pisani and her colleagues tailored their Voronoi tessellations to identify about 6,000 voids in the data from an enormous galactic mapping project called the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS).
—Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 25 July 2023
Doris Schattschneider, a retired mathematician affiliated with Moravian University with expertise in tessellations, had been skeptical about the likelihood of a true einstein ever being discovered.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 22 June 2023
Each tessellation should plot to exactly one point within the plane.
—Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2023
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