Tessellation Is Easier Than You Think

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2 жыл бұрын

I show you how easy it is to tessellate
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@PlasmaChannel 2 жыл бұрын

That’s really interesting James. I always thought tessilation required super specific shapes

@physicschemistryandquantum810 2 жыл бұрын

Nice to see you here I love your videos

@FIRE_STORMFOX-3692 2 жыл бұрын

Love your channel and also tetrix

@siddhantdad908 2 жыл бұрын

I just realised i didnt know his name

@astroandmore5044 2 жыл бұрын

Again same recommendation

@RomanoPRODUCTION 2 жыл бұрын

please tesselate plasma

@jordanfish 2 жыл бұрын

In high school art class we learned to create tesselated shapes by cutting into a square and taping whatever you cut to the other side. It works horizontally and vertically so you can get some surprisingly complex results with a few cuts.

@dickJohnsonpeter 2 жыл бұрын

Marjory is impressive. I sent this video to my wife actually before I saw that part because our two year old just got a new toy that is geometric shapes that magnetically stick together and I can tell that they really did their research in choosing the shapes because I love using it to teach my son two and three dimensional geometry and have made some pretty cool discoveries playing with them.

@westonding8953 2 жыл бұрын

Hands on manipulatives are a good way to learn!

@paul_warner 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you're having more fun with your son's toys than he is lol

@Anne--Marie Жыл бұрын

Please, what is the name of the toy?

@swear.157 Ай бұрын

What were your parents thinking when they named you? 🤨

@dickJohnsonpeter Ай бұрын

@@swear.157 Not my name but if it was that's about exactly what I'd ask if I were you lol.

@1.4142 2 жыл бұрын

"You can't tessellate pentagons." *Flashback to penrose tiling*

@critters16 2 жыл бұрын

You and your channel never fail to inspire me.😊 Appreciate, thank you

@offthemil 2 жыл бұрын

The story about the pentagons is amazing

@sephypantsu 2 жыл бұрын

random stay at home mom creating complex geometric solutions for fun

@JMWexperience 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks - you took me back 54 years to my 7th grade geometry class! I really appreciated that.

@justythrasher 2 жыл бұрын

Seriously James, your channel is in my top 5. Thank you!

@ilajoie3 2 жыл бұрын

Perhaps the greatest at this was M C Escher, he made tessilations that transformed into further tessilations of different shapes such as birds

@Blahnik1182 2 жыл бұрын

Birds are, by definition, quadrilateral. They always tesselate.

@mrcat1043 2 жыл бұрын

@@Blahnik1182 lol

@sofa-lofa4241 2 жыл бұрын

I have a large print of 'Sky and Water ll' it's like a tessellation, but I think it's referred to as 'division of a plane'

@TheAlphatitan 2 жыл бұрын

@@Blahnik1182 Is this a joke? I don’t know if it is or not.

@chriswebster24 2 жыл бұрын

@@Blahnik1182 Most of them also migrate, except for like chickens and emus and stuff.

@irkedoff 2 жыл бұрын

This is awesome❣ Thanks for sharing.

@Impatient_Ape 2 жыл бұрын

ANY hexagon whose opposite sides are parallel will tessellate. You pretty much demonstrate this using your 4-sided figures. There are plenty of non-convex hexagons which will tessellate. There are only 3 *irregular* convex hexagons which will tessellate.

@edweinb 2 жыл бұрын

Or maybe honeybees are impossible!

@ongbonga9025 2 жыл бұрын

Glad I'm not the only one making this point, although I'll add there's a great deal more than "plenty" of non-convex hexagons that will tessellate... there's infinite.

@Impatient_Ape 2 жыл бұрын

@@ongbonga9025 Do you know if there exist any non-convex hexagons which have *aperiodic* tiling rather than periodic tessellation? (I'm just too lazy/busy to try and look that up right now)

@TwoTeaTee 2 жыл бұрын

I owe this guy so much!

@Entity_BlackRed777 2 жыл бұрын

Nice job, James!!

@onehilwonder 8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for going a bit more into the mathematics behind tessellations... this is basically the only thing I remember doing in high-school trigonometry, it's nice to be reminded of the "why" behind the mathgic.

@WranglerSlim 2 жыл бұрын

What I find fascinating is how soccer balls are made from a combination of both pentagons and hexagons, all of which are symmetrical.

@NelsonClick 2 жыл бұрын

OMG! When he started I thought this topic was stupid but i kept watching and now it's my favorite action lab vids ever. I got it. I was so stimulated. Wow! 360. I'm forwarding this to my quilter friend now.

@nickhammac 2 жыл бұрын

The only man to make simple geometry the dopest shit on KZfaq!

@oshao2382 2 жыл бұрын

This is the first time I really get what tessellation is, what a great video! thanks!

@1.4142 2 жыл бұрын

How to create tessellations with more sides: Take a rectangle and cut out anything from one side and the adjacent side. Then tape both pieces to their opposite sides. This shape will tessellate a plane.

@mrcatsolver4537 2 жыл бұрын

Wow! This is crazy interesting, all of your videos are!

@snowhunter7536 2 жыл бұрын

Tesselation has always been my favorite kind of visual art, and I feel blessed that you made it interesting.

@louieberg2942 2 жыл бұрын

Could you be a fan of M C Escher's?

@jialixx 2 жыл бұрын

This is very interesting knowledge. Thank you for the amazing video. I will do my kitchen floor using one of the pentagonal tiles.

@BuiHieuDong 2 жыл бұрын

*These complex tessellations is still easier to fitting than me trying to fit myself in the group of friends.*

@molybd3num823 2 жыл бұрын

deep

@trueherbsman 2 жыл бұрын

You sir are an outstanding presenter. Thanks

@davidalearmonth 2 жыл бұрын

Just curious if anyone else had the first reaction of not cutting the paper at all and leaving it as a rectangle? :)

@bobby_greene 2 жыл бұрын

I knew there had to be more to it than that, but yes that was my first thought

@theCidisIn 2 жыл бұрын

Haha not me, but I can totally see it now.😅

@DaimyoD0 2 жыл бұрын

I was like, "oh no, I guess that's technically not a square but I feel robbed nonetheless" lol

@rogerkearns8094 2 жыл бұрын

Well he did say to cut one out so, yes, cut straight across to make two rectangles.

@solarsynapse 2 жыл бұрын

Cut a square.

@arnavsharma9614 2 жыл бұрын

This is really useful while making mechanical parts . Good work 👍

@PencilSketch_TariniPNayak 2 жыл бұрын

I discovered an octagon that tessellate. Try it with a thick lettered 'E' without this '-' inner line in it

@SToXC_. 2 жыл бұрын

its an irregular shape, there are infinite irregular tasselation shapes he s talking about semi regulat

@suzannehartmann946 2 жыл бұрын

No wonder a mom added to it. The picture with this definition was a QUILT! "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." And of course a quilt serves a PURPOSE. It is using up scraps of fabric after it has been used to make clothes. So its secondary purpose is to form memories. Often the family can gather around the quilt, point to swatches and say, "hey I remember that dress, shirt, skirt, pair of pants, etc." As they keep warm under it.

@TheInternetHelpdeskPlays 2 жыл бұрын

I saw this in the 90s on the Curiosity show. Amazing to see everytime.

@dollystudios5349 2 жыл бұрын

This is super interesting!!!

@EvilCherry3 2 жыл бұрын

4:35 Incorrectly said. You can have more than 7 sides and tesselate if you use interior angles.

@EvilCherry3 2 жыл бұрын

For example FℲ makes a rectangle and each F has 10 sides and rectangles pave the 2D space.

@_just_looking_thank_you 2 жыл бұрын

He ought to have specified ‘convex shapes’.

@TehEpicMuffzor 2 жыл бұрын

I loved the history in here

@john20johnny 2 жыл бұрын

A great video, like always. But a question, I think you were upset or not as energetic as always on the recording day. Hope everything is going well and smooth for you and your family. God bless you bro.

@silvinasaravia2568 2 жыл бұрын

Thaaaaanksss!!! ✨😀😀😀

@palmon8973 2 жыл бұрын

That type of mom is really strong

@yunosage2356 2 жыл бұрын

Let’s go another upload

@kidgroovie 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, I never really understood what this term meant until now, have seen it as part graphic settings in video games

@johndavidzoleta5802 9 ай бұрын

thank you fore this video

@rainer.1276 2 жыл бұрын

Thats awesome, I like that Marjorie Rice discovered something on her kitchen table that mathematicians missed.

@SpeedTigerz 5 ай бұрын

Bro legit saved ❤ my life

@venkatanarasimharajuvaripeta 2 жыл бұрын

Hello Sir, You are doing a great work Thank you very much Love from India 😊😊😊😊😊❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

@yashrawat9409 2 жыл бұрын

I remember watching a numberphile video about regular polyhedron in higher dimensions

@eval_is_evil 2 жыл бұрын

Holy moly, that mom rocks !

@johnearnhardt9907 2 жыл бұрын

Huge fan! Can you cover the chaos pendulum one day?

@cradlelist 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks James I've learnt a lot and for real I don't know why someone could dislike this video...but well it may be their preferences..not judging

@cliffmathew 2 жыл бұрын

Cats playing with mouse?

@joshuagibson2520 2 жыл бұрын

Judge away. Your allowed to have an opinion.

@Anne--Marie Жыл бұрын

That is fascinating.

@jlpsinde 2 жыл бұрын

You are incredibly good

@robinpetersson3081 2 жыл бұрын

In 3D graphics we use the word tesselation to describe how polygons are broken up into triangles. Now I want to go program a program that finds all the missing tesselations :)

@DJAsHeRMusic 2 жыл бұрын

Off to build a tesselation tiled floor will look great

@RubberJellyfish 2 жыл бұрын

alt-J "Tesselate" The perfect soundtrack for these kind of topics and inquiries. 😊

@RobertTolone 2 жыл бұрын

I was certain you would mention Penrose tiling somewhere in the video.

@AGUSTD.122 2 жыл бұрын

Me as a origami artist I love tessellation

@Vivungisport 2 жыл бұрын

Can create beautiful geometrical shapes with this technique.

@chrisw4997 2 жыл бұрын

I guess that explains why a circle cannot tesselate. It has infinite sides!

@michaelmccoy1794 2 жыл бұрын

Circles have ZERO sides, friend. I mean, it's IN the shape itself--a circle IS a zero.

@chrisw4997 2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelmccoy1794 ah, my friend. There, you could be wrong! A circle can have zero, one, two, or infinite sides. Zero: a side could refer to a straight line One: one curved line, going around in a circuit Two: inside and outside Infinite: lots of tiny straight sides kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qcyZn7V0qNqupHU.html

@user-je2ss9sm8h 2 жыл бұрын

i am 13 years old and i have been learning this for 2 years (one month each grade) so i am pretty good at this

@vivekyadav 2 жыл бұрын

Wow Awesome!

@zacelliot8029 2 жыл бұрын

Nice shirt!

@polgol6741 2 жыл бұрын

Good Job.

@user-ti6pe9ko6h 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing Information Great

@storageananya7275 2 жыл бұрын

Who remembers when his channel was small and he was just a guy crushing things in his backyard

@ecsyntric 2 жыл бұрын

i will probably notice this during the next visit to Floor & Decor

@wassollderscheiss33 2 жыл бұрын

I lieked the mathematical touch of this

@Miastrong930 2 жыл бұрын

Love this video. I have been fascinated by tessellations since I was a child. In a larger repeated tessellated pattern what is the lowest number of colors needed such that no two shapes of the same color touch? Related to cartography.

@bobby_greene 2 жыл бұрын

Do corners count, or just shared sides? Asking for Utah Colorado Arizona and New Mexico

@DemsW 2 жыл бұрын

Do corners count, or just shared sides? Asking for Germany France Poland and Sweden

@ezrastewart543 2 жыл бұрын

Do corners count, or just shared sides? Asking for Austria Ireland England and Iceland

@gabor6259 2 жыл бұрын

3 or 4, depending on the tesselation.

@Aditya.Pandey. 2 жыл бұрын

Great videos ....... Love from INDIA❤❤❤

@coilockerfpv 2 жыл бұрын

This is the nerdiest thing I have ever seen. I love it!

@PhillipAmthor 2 жыл бұрын

The stay at home mom: hold my baby i need to proof this mathematician wrong!

@someknave 2 жыл бұрын

Your result about shapes with more sides must have specific rules because you can use a quadrilateral as a base shape and then make one of the sides jagged so that it still fits with itself when you rotate it 180° this can have any arbitrary number of sides and will tessellate the plane.

@donefe 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, like other users i just to think that was a really hard job to find shapes that can fit in pattern

@arppanasivakumar299 2 жыл бұрын

Sir I have a doubt in your past video you made an expriment in that freeze the water it expanse and blast the container . So will water really contract are expand during freezing

@fourierrocket 2 жыл бұрын

What kind of blocks can tessellate?

@moz9764 2 жыл бұрын

I remember doing this back in 3rd grade

@naoboyz8259 2 жыл бұрын

Cooooool!!!

@Phantom_tpa 2 жыл бұрын

That's really cool

@theCidisIn 2 жыл бұрын

Me watching this on the toilet with the volume all the way up. My Dad in his bathroom hearing, "Today I'm gonna teach you how to tesalate." 😳

@107thFruit 2 жыл бұрын

So I literally drew tessellations for years starting in High School during boring lectures. I have notebooks full of tessellations using different shapes. I never knew this is what a repeating pattern such as this was called though!

@GraceLJW 2 жыл бұрын

We had to make tesselations in my 6th grade class! It had to be asymmetrical and contain at least 5 sides too. It was a lot of fun trying to figure it out. Mine ended up as a turtle made out of hexagons.

@RafikBianconero 2 жыл бұрын

In which fields it could have applications ?

@SkyOfTheUniverse 2 жыл бұрын

Is this related to fractal patterns at all?

@Fraz777 2 жыл бұрын

I have learned more science from you than my normal teacher

@danielgilgomez4918 2 жыл бұрын

what is the software he is using??? really courius to do it myself

@niaschim 2 жыл бұрын

Dear Action Lab: I have an experiment Idea: Explanation: a tiny glowing orb which hydrodynamically resembles a floating star, complete with sunspots and coronal ejections. Forward: I know I am not a patreon supporter, but please consider trying this suggestion anyways, or perhaps suggest it to them. This morning I conceived of how to make a dynamic model of the sun, in a jar. It was complicated. I will not bore you with the details. A simpler similar experiment you could do on the cheap would be this: Set-up: Some autozone uv oil soluble luminescent dye, mixed into ferrofluid (it's oil-based right?) Cold LN2 temp super magnet. Magnetic coil used for heating cold soldering pins through magneto constriction. An airtight container Tape; a drill bit & caulk. Measure the average height range of the floating glob of ferrofluid as seen in the set up from your past video; Place a container over it, tape the magnetoconstrictor center level with the average of the range. Drill and caulk a hole for the power plug. Then perhaps make a drain/flood plane you can fill with LN2, or not, it can also be a flat piece of plastic. Put the chilled magnet and floating ferro fluid in place, so that they mate to the center of the magnetoconstrictor. Also, prior to this, mix the glowing dye into the ferrofluid sample. Quickly caulk the bottom of the container so that fumes don't leak. Turn on an overhead blacklight, turn off the lights, plug in the magnetoconstrictor to power. Boil some zero-G glowing ferrofluid in the dark, and be amazed if you can. I suspect this would resemble a miniature sun, although it might just create an oil fire. So take the necessary precautions. Perhaps fill the container with that coolant that behaves like water but is in fact a chemically inert gas? (Sold by 3M as Novec for flame retardant electronic coolant I believe) (only do this if it is safe I do not know if it is safe yet that is why I am asking the pros like you to weigh in) In which case you may have to drill two additional holes and install valves, for letting air out while you fill the chamber with something non-flammable. I believe this could be of benefit to experimental stellar dynamics so please try this. I also think it would be the mother of all desk ornaments. I will also forward this letter to Cody's Lab and to TKOR, because I like them equally and they also further free science education just like you. I love all you guys thank you for reading this, please be safe, and I am okay if you reject my idea. I am better than okay if you accept my idea, however. I am excitedly awaiting a response. I am a dork. Thank you -all. -Sincerely Nia.

@niaschim 2 жыл бұрын

To harness energy from it, or to deal with expansion stress, I imagine: tying a balloon to the output nozzle would work. Utilizing the design meant to be filled with novec ofcourse (the one with two novels on the top) I also think a hydrostatic system of LN2 with u bend gas trap like a toilet, and the magnet in the reservoir, or a cheaper system with a T wall and a gap at the bottom, would be best for keeping the magnet cold. The ferrofluid will get hot, so it will need to be in am inflammable substance. So the final design would be a triode for fluids. 1st stage: place magnet in tray and fill tray with LN2. 2nd stage: place ferro fluid glob into magnetic locking with magnet. 3rd stage: place modified container dome complete with carefully placed alternating current magnetoconstriction coil over magnet. 4th stage: seal air tight. (It's air tight so long as the LN2 reservoir is full). 5th stage: replace air with Novec or Argon or similar fluid substance* *note: novec might displace LN2, so Argon may be Argon, or Nitrogen gas or a sealed reservoir may be superior. 6th state: place deflated balloon onto output nozzel. 7th stage: power on. Once the ferrofluid begins to boil, I predict the air in the chamber will want to expand, so if the balloon starts to inflate, it may be wise to turn off the power at a certain size of inflation, and allow the system to cool. If you have a power control timer, or a light switch and good rythm: pulse width modulation based off of the inflation of the balloon, might be required. Ie: turn it off and on again, and again, and again, to keep the balloon from popping. Just a last minute concern and hot fix idea I had. This harnesses, energy, since the balloon could be replaced with a gas piston. I doubt it's an efficient energy source, but if thermal expansion proves to be an issue then it's technically an engine of some kind albeit probably a horrible one. It's mainly meant to be a pretty floating thing that shoots off globs which get pulled back in like a star, and glows and has chaotic ccurrent. I don't know if it would work, can't build it myself because of my living conditions. Umm... yeah. The balloon fix. There ya go Or put it in a really thick pressure chamber which clamps down into place so that it doesn't explode when it expands outwards, and then cool an external magnet with whatever works since it's external and doesn't matter as much, and then the only thing on the inside would by the constrictor. I'm lost in thought. I wonder if aquarium glue would be strong enough or if stuff would leak where the power cord leaves. Like I said, an ambient pressure system with a balloon and someone with safety glasses earplugs and a fire extinguisher and a light switch controlling the magnetoconstrictor, might be the cheapest reliable method, but I'm kind of inexperienced, so........... (trails off) Do you're best yo✨👍

@niaschim 2 жыл бұрын

Perhaps a steal plate with the magnet on the outside in a bucket of ln2 could be an improvement to this design, since the field would permeate in, right? If it's supercooled it might need to be duct-taped to the steel plate so the steal doesn't levitate around, right? I don’t know, just a last minute suggestion, because I'm excited and thinking about this a lot. Sorry

@niaschim 2 жыл бұрын

If you replace the mag lev, with sono lev, the number of power cords goes up, but, it theoretically lasts indefinitely (instead of needing a constant renewal of LN2), so there you go, I guess

@JoeySonal 2 жыл бұрын

Gotta love sir Roger Penrose

@deathreus 2 жыл бұрын

Some Cowboy: "Texagons" **cracks whip**

@julianabradford7081 2 жыл бұрын

James, I always got the feeling you were a member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I am too! That’s so cool! Your light and passion for science really does shine! Keep up the great work and positive vibes you bring to your channel! 💓

@Majin_Sophax 2 жыл бұрын

Is he though?

@julianabradford7081 2 жыл бұрын

@@Majin_Sophax I thought so. I looked it up on google. I could be wrong obviously, but it seems he is :)

@weilingkoo9045 Жыл бұрын

Hi, does anyone know what platform / medium available like in 1:04 that allows you to create shapes and experiment if it tessellates?

@ivoryowl 2 жыл бұрын

>Sees things neat and orderly >*Happy brain noises/chemicals*

@MitzvosGolem1 2 жыл бұрын

Fractals and Madelbrot set interesting also.

@saketsinkar6609 2 жыл бұрын

Sir can you please tell me which software or application you used for the simulation ? If any other knows it please tell please.

@samkostos4520 2 жыл бұрын

This is very important for 3D artists

@reedtimmer9241 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a tic toc dance move

@dkaloger5720 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if you can scale the size of the shapes however you want does that change how many shapes can be tessellated?

@markthomas36 2 жыл бұрын

Hi James, I’m assuming that these excellent presentations are targeted at kids and teenagers. I’m 54 and I still enjoy them lol. Thank you for your efforts mate. Greetings from Australia 🇦🇺

@TheAlphatitan 2 жыл бұрын

Inmean, considering the fancy words he randomly throws in, they’re for anyone willing to watch them

@williamcrosby1061 2 жыл бұрын

I assume you would say mc escher tessalations are built from square or triangular bases actually ends up being interesting that it works around the square or triangle limit.

@Pengalen 2 жыл бұрын

For Pentagons, you can probably derive some kind of rule that breaks it down into a quadrilateral and a triangle, that must have some certain range of relationships, angle-wise.

@jaapsch2 2 жыл бұрын

A few small corrections and remarks: The 15 convex pentagons that tessellate are really 15 families of pentagons. The members in a family can all tessellate in exactly the same way, they just have slightly different dimensions. The same is true of the 3 families of tessellating hexagons - the regular hexagon actually fits into all three of those families. In 2017 Michaël Rao proved that the 15 convex pentagon families are the only ones. Although his proof involved computer searches, it is generally accepted as correct. There are shapes with 7 or more sides can tessellate provided they are non-convex. Convex heptagons/octagons etc can never tessellate. An easy handwavy proof: Convex polygons have vertex angles less than 180. So at every vertex in the tiling there will be at least 3 tiles meeting. Therefore the average size of the vertex angles of the tiles is no more than 360/3=120 degrees. Heptagons/Octagons etc have a larger average vertex angle and so cannot tessellate when convex. If you want to see more about pentagon tilings in particular, I did a 5 minute talk about them: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g7Fll9x4z7KznnU.html