[1650–60; tessellate (v.) + -ion]This word is first recorded in the period 1650–60. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: burlesque, pony, siphon, syllabus, triplet-ion is a suffix, appearing in words of Latin origin, denoting action or condition, usedin Latin and in English to form nouns from stems of Latin adjectives (communion; union), verbs (legion; opinion), and esp. past participles (allusion; creation; fusion; notion; torsion)
Examples of 'tessellation' in a sentence
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This paper proposes a method to detect corresponding vertex pairs between planar tessellation datasets.
Yong Huh, Kiyun Yu, Woojin Park 2016, 'Detecting Corresponding Vertex Pairs between Planar Tessellation Datasets with AgglomerativeHierarchical Cell-Set Matching.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4922660?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Any local deviation from regularity corresponds to a tessellation containing cells with non-zero contributions.
Jean-Paul Jernot, Patricia Jouannot-Chesney, Christian Lantuéjoul, Gérard Nouet, PierreRuterana 2011, 'TOPOLOGICAL LOCALISATION OF DEFECTS AT ATOMIC SCALE', Image Analysis and Stereologyhttp://www.ias-iss.org/ojs/IAS/article/view/713. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Many examples and figures, including some based on tessellation nesting and superposition, illustrate the theory.
Richard Cowan, Viola Weiss 2018, 'LINE SEGMENTS WHICH ARE UNIONS OF TESSELLATION EDGES', Image Analysis and Stereologyhttps://www.ias-iss.org/ojs/IAS/article/view/1621. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Explicit perfect-plasticity equations were derived for tessellation-type models.
Oscar García 2014, 'Can plasticity make spatial structure irrelevant in individual-tree models?', Forest Ecosystemshttp://www.forestecosyst.com/content/1/1/16. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The bead positions served as nodes for a finite element tessellation.
Thorsten M. Koch, Stefan Münster, Navid Bonakdar, James P. Butler, Ben Fabry 2012, '3D Traction Forces in Cancer Cell Invasion', PLoS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0033476. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Parametric tessellation models are often used to approximate complex grain morphologies of polycrystalline microstructures.
Ondřej Šedivý, Jules Mullen Dake, Carl Emil Krill III, Volker Schmidt, Aleš Jäger 2017, 'DESCRIPTION OF THE 3D MORPHOLOGY OF GRAIN BOUNDARIES IN ALUMINUM ALLOYS USING TESSELLATIONMODELS GENERATED BY ELLIPSOIDS', Image Analysis and Stereologyhttps://www.ias-iss.org/ojs/IAS/article/view/1656. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Tessellation has been found since the birth of civilization.
Chang Wei 2018, 'Application of Tessellation in Architectural Geometry Design', E3S Web of Conferenceshttps://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20183803015. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
A group of 108 micrographies (380,000 μm2 each one) were studied using tessellationmethods.
Glauco López, Eliézer Lizano, Elis Aldana, Gleyni González 2009, 'Arreglo de los polígonos del exocorion de huevos eclosionados de algunas especiesde los géneros Triatoma Laporte, Meccus Stal y Nesotriatoma Usinger (Heteroptera:Reduviidae).', EntomoBrasilishttp://www.periodico.ebras.bio.br/ojs/index.php/ebras/article/view/59/84. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The union of all such lines (called p-lines) constitutes the mentioned tessellation.
Luis M Cruz-Orive 2011, 'THE PIVOTAL TESSELLATION', Image Analysis and Stereologyhttp://www.ias-iss.org/ojs/IAS/article/view/849. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In history, tessellation was applied into skins or decorations in architecture.
Chang Wei 2018, 'Application of Tessellation in Architectural Geometry Design', E3S Web of Conferenceshttps://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20183803015. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)