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What does tessellation mean?

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  1. (uncountable) The property or fact of tessellating.
  2. (countable) A tiling pattern with no gaps; the result of tessellating an area or plane.
  3. (less common) polygon tessellation.
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This large scale tessellation was a highly effective representation of how complex figures can tessellate.
Its new hardware tessellation support will enable games to reach an entirely new caliber of graphics.
Third, optimized anisotropic meshes are generated from the computed metric tensor by an anisotropic centroidal Voronoi tessellation algorithm.
Describe a series of transformations that can result in a given tessellation.
Figure 33 shows a tessellation of the hyperbolic disc by regular pentagons.
Equilateral hexagons are used in a honeycomb configuration because of the high degree of sampling isotropy inherent to the tessellation.

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