Jigsaw puzzle
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A jigsaw puzzle is a tiling puzzle that requires the assembly of often irregularly shaped, interlocking, and mosaicked pieces. Typically each piece puzzle contains a portion of a picture, which is com
Person solving a jigsaw puzzle
British printed puzzle from 1874
Wooden jigsaw pieces, cut by hand
Paperboard jigsaw pieces
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
Zellige terracotta tiles in Marrakesh, 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 rhombille mosaic