Circle Limit III
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Circle Limit III is a woodcut made in 1959 by Dutch artist M. C. Escher, in which "strings of fish shoot up like rockets from infinitely far away" and then "fall back again whence they came".
Circle Limit III, 1959
Tessellation
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A tessellation or tiling is the covering of a surface, often a plane, using one or more geometric shapes, called tiles, with no overlaps and no gaps. In mathematics, tessellation can be generalized to higher dimensions and a variety of geometries.
Zellige terracotta tiles in Marrakech, forming edge‑to‑edge, regular and other tessellations
A wall sculpture in Leeuwarden celebrating the artistic tessellations of M. C. Escher
A temple mosaic from the ancient Sumerian city of Uruk IV (3400–3100 BC), showing a tessellation pattern in coloured tiles
Roman geometric mosaic