SPATIAL DATABASES
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The simplest and most common tessellation is a regular tessallation. For example, an image is seen as a partition of the space composed on regular pixels that have an associated color.
Only three regular polygons tessellate in the Euclidean plane: triangles, squares or hexagons.We can't show the entire plane, but imagine that these are pieces taken from planes that have been tiled. Here are examples of
| a tessellation of triangles |  |
| a tessellation of squares |  |
| a tessellation of hexagons |  |
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