Interactive tessellations games

This is fine and the students are encouraged to explain how they interpreted the instructions in their report. Some students may benefit from a writing frame when producing the reports of their investigations. Teachers may suggest sections or headings such as Introduction, Interpretation, Research, Working and Conclusion or something similar. Which shapes tessellate? Related Tangram Template Use the pieces of the tangram puzzle to fit into the outlines provided.

Suggested Tetrominoes Arrange the two sets of tetrominoes in the outline of a rectangle. Recommended Pentominoes Arrange the twelve pentominoes in the outline of a rectangle. Main menu Search. Hide Menu. Interactive environment Getting Started You may also like Clock Hands This investigation explores using different shapes as the hands of the clock.

Bracelets Investigate the different shaped bracelets you could make from 18 different spherical beads. Sweets in a Box How many different shaped boxes can you design for 36 sweets in one layer? Tessellation Interactivity.

Semiregular tessellation. Escherized Pentagon Tessellation. Triangle Tessellation with Hexagonal Gap. Triangle Tessellation with Gaps. Pythagorean Tiling. Hexagon Tiling. A Tessellation. Indiana Puzzle Quilt.

Three Piece Hexagonal Tessellation. Hexagonal Star. Cat Tiling. Pentagon Spiral Tiling. Hexagon Spiral Tessellation. As part of our efforts to expand our game graphics settings glossary , we sat down with Epic Games Senior Technical Artist Alan Willard, a year veteran of the company.

Willard provided a basic overview of tessellation, how it is used in game graphics, GPU load and performance, and implementation techniques. This is how 3D graphics are built. When we do that, that allows us to do things like displacement or smoothing and increase the apparent detail. This not only makes the surface look higher resolution, [but also adds] bumps and hills and valleys that weren't there before.

You get a much higher fidelity surface. This topic was first brought to Epic Games by nVidia nearing the end of the development cycle for Unreal Engine 3. Some readers may remember the Samaritan demo , a video showcasing rocky extrusion from a human character's face.

This effect was produced using displacement mapping that ultimately gets rendered by the GPU, assisting in the dicing of objects into more triangles. Dicing objects in this fashion allows for more curvature, bumps, gouges, and so forth. Willard outlines boulders as an easy example, as seen here:.