World Tessellation Day (June 17th)
Quick facts When is it? Every June 17th Tagged as Items & Things What are the hashtags? #TessellationDay #WorldTessellationDay Who founded it? Emily Grosvenor, Author Have we missed something? Surely, there’s little more in the world more visually pleasing than tessellation – that wonderful, perfect effect when the same shapes can be repeated again and again to fit perfectly against themselves. Your standard tiled kitchen floor is a tessellation – but the patterns that can fit together get much more complicated than that! Even if you’re not a maths buff, you might be a sucker for pretty patterns – and if so, then today is for you! History of World Tessellation Day This day was started up for all pattern-lovers by a bunch of math fans, and a children’s book author. Emily Grosvenor, author of the kids’ book Tessellation! took it upon herself to make this a day to celebrate shapes and patterns of the repeated, tiling kind. Tessellations have been celebrated