Insert Title · Web viewTessellation Help Step 1 Draw a rectangle in Microsoft® Word: go to the...
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MTH/214 v9 Tessellation Help Step 1 Draw a rectangle in Microsoft ® Word: go to the “Insert” tab, select “Shapes,” and then use the rectangle tool. Click your rectangle to select it, go to the “Format” tab, then “Shape Fill,” and choose “No Fill.” Step 2 Use the line segment tool or the curve tool from the same menu of “Shapes” to draw a pattern from one corner to the other on the right, inside the rectangle. Here is an example using the curve tool: Step 3 Click the design inside the rectangle to select it, right click to bring up a menu, choose “Copy,” and then paste the design on the left side, outside the rectangle. Copyright 2020 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved.
Insert Title · Web viewTessellation Help Step 1 Draw a rectangle in Microsoft® Word: go to the “Insert” tab, select “Shapes,” and then use the rectangle tool. Click your
Insert TitleTessellation Help
Step 1
Draw a rectangle in Microsoft® Word: go to the “Insert” tab, select
“Shapes,” and then use the rectangle tool.
Click your rectangle to select it, go to the “Format” tab, then
“Shape Fill,” and choose “No Fill.”
Step 2
Use the line segment tool or the curve tool from the same menu of
“Shapes” to draw a pattern from one corner to the other on the
right, inside the rectangle. Here is an example using the curve
tool:
Step 3
Click the design inside the rectangle to select it, right click to
bring up a menu, choose “Copy,” and then paste the design on the
left side, outside the rectangle.
Step 4
Draw another design from one corner to the other on the top, inside
the rectangle—be careful not to overlap the design on the right.
Use the line segment or curve tool like you did in Step 2.
Step 5
Click the design you drew in Step 4 to select it, right-click to
bring up a menu, choose “Copy,” and then paste it to the bottom
side, outside the rectangle.
Step 6
Get rid of unwanted lines by highlighting only the original
rectangle and deleting it to get the shape you are going to
tessellate.
Step 7
Click on each line while holding the CTRL key to select all four
lines. Group them together by right-clicking to bring up a menu,
choose “Grouping,” and then choose “Group.”
Step 8
Decide what kind of picture you want your shape to represent, and
decorate it:
You may rotate it to see if there is a different angle that gives
you a more appealing shape.
You can also use the Microsoft® Paint program to color your
shape.
The following example has been made to look somewhat like a
turtle:
Step 9
Click to select any items that you added to the picture, and group
them with the rest of your shape like you did in Step 7; this way,
the decorations will also be ready to copy.
Copy and paste your shape multiple times, fitting them together
with no gaps or overlap. You can group these together as well.
Repeat until your shape pattern covers the entire page.
Additional Examples
Here is another shape created using the steps listed above. You may
decide first what you want your shape to be, or you may want to
create it first and then decide what the shape could become. You
can rotate it any way you choose. For example, here are two
possibilities for the same shape. You can add to your shape by
drawing in details to form the rest of your picture.
a. Ghost b. Person with crazy hair
At this point, you can either add colors to your shape now, if you
want them all to be the same color, or you can wait a few steps if
you prefer to color them differently. The following example adds
colors in a later step.
Once you have your shape transformed into the picture you want,
select all the additional details you added to your main shape by
holding CTRL and clicking each added line or shape. Right-click to
bring up a menu, choose “Grouping,” then “Group.” By grouping all
the pieces of your shape together, you can then click on it once to
select everything to make it ready to copy and paste.
Once you have your shape ready, you can begin the tessellation
process. Open a blank page in Microsoft® Word, select your shape,
copy and paste it onto the blank page multiple times, and then fit
all the shapes together. You can rotate your shape and tessellate
it however you like. See the next page as an example of a full-page
tessellation.
Once your page is covered, group all the shapes together as one big
picture by holding CTRL and clicking to select all the individual
pictures. Right-click to bring up a menu, choose “Grouping,” then
“Group.”
To color your shape, open the Paint program. Computers running
Windows® typically have Paint installed; find it by clicking the
Start button, selecting “All Programs,” then “Accessories,” and
then Paint. Mac users should use Paintbrush® or another comparable
painting program.
Copy your tessellation document from Word and paste it into the
Paint program. See the example below:
Use the color tools to color your tessellation. Be sure to save
your tessellation in Paint.
To paste the finished page back into a Word document, click the
“Insert” tab from your Word document, then click “Picture,” then
select the tessellation you saved from Paint.
See the example of a multicolored tessellation.
Be creative, and have fun with this assignment!
As always, if you need help, please contact your instructor or
reach out to classmates.
Copyright 2020 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved.
Copyright 2020 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved.