What's the difference between tessellation and tiling?

Tessellation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of tessellating; also, the mosaic work so formed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I arrange my coins into ascending size in my pockets, for example, and nothing gives me more comfort than the knowledge that my forks, knives and spoons are all in the correct place, tessellating magnificently in their drawer.
  • (2) Cells, considered as polygons, site their division line according to stochastic rules, eventually forming a tessellation of the plane.
  • (3) The selected area of the section is covered by a tessellation of domains.
  • (4) In contrast, the regular tessellation tended to increase feature means and decrease feature variances.
  • (5) Parapapillary chorioretinal atrophy was associated with shallow glaucomatous cupping, diffuse nerve fiber loss, markedly tessellated fundus and only moderately elevated intraocular pressure.
  • (6) Current techniques in composite-block-structured grid generation and unstructured grid generation for general 3D geometries are summarized, including both algebraic and elliptic generation procedures for the former and Delaunay tessellations for the latter.
  • (7) Its tessellating properties have captivated mathematicians, engineers and sculptors, and Erdély has reinvented himself as the shape's globetrotting chaperon.
  • (8) The group's first single, Tessellate , an onomatopoeic puzzle of angular beats and pointed sexual advances, became a radio hit before anyone knew who they were.
  • (9) Also, distinctness of a tesselated fundus, frequency of optic disc haemorrhages and frequency of bared circumlinear or bared cilioretinal vessels did not differ significantly.
  • (10) A vesicle simulation and computer analysis program, VESICA, is described which employs spherical projections of triangularly tessellated icosahedra to produce molecular graphics models of the three-dimensional structures of lipid vesicles.
  • (11) The tessellated marble fountain in the courtyard in front of his church now has a hole the size of a large soup-plate.
  • (12) In fish 55-65 mm long, about 300 formed a tessellated array across each retina.
  • (13) Parapapillary chorioretinal atrophy was associated with shallow glaucomatous cupping, diffuse nerve fiber loss, a marked tessellated fundus, and only moderately elevated intraocular pressure.
  • (14) Especially when you consider the meaning behind the lyrics to their debut single, Tessellate .
  • (15) Consequently, the extracted features showed subtle but consistent differences, with decreasing anisotropic effects and data dispersion for the regular tessellation.
  • (16) The low-income suburb is a mix of public housing and new residential estates, whose tessellating culs-de-sacs brush up against horse paddocks and small farms.
  • (17) Expected to be general, these trends recommend use of the regular tessellation, especially when classification accuracy may depend on small differences in several similar geometric features.
  • (18) On solid materials migrated cells maintained their tessellated morphology and exhibited numerous micro-appendages anchoring them to the surface of the test materials.
  • (19) In addition, cells contacting others near the 45 degree diagonals were more readily segmented when the image was tessellated on the regular lattice.
  • (20) The few systems capable of processing hexagonally tessellated images have approximated this tessellation by using image data acquired on a rectangular sampling lattice, from which six of the eight image samples were selected from each local neighborhood.

Tiling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tile
  • (n.) A surface covered with tiles, or composed of tiles.
  • (n.) Tiles, collectively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Inside, the tiles and the stained glass are said to be perfection, matched against murals that depict the inventions of the industrial revolution and the signing of the Magna Carta.
  • (2) The risk of getting malaria was greater for inhabitants of the poorest type of house construction (incomplete, mud, or cadjan (palm) walls, and cadjan thatched roofs) compared to houses with complete brick and plaster walls and tiled roofs.
  • (3) The artist covered every inch of the steps in front of his house in tiles, ceramics and mirrors – originally in the green, yellow, blue and white of the Brazilian flag, later adding tiles in other colours brought by visitors.
  • (4) The infected cells treated by this method showed light green fluorescence of the protoplasm, with a dark nucleus, while the intact cells had tile-red cytoplasm.
  • (5) The results of these experiments demonstrated a significant superiority of this modification over the conventional techniques, particularly over the tile technique used generally in this country.
  • (6) The rustic rooms have clay tiles and wooden furniture, and the walls are brightened up with local fabrics.
  • (7) The algorithm presented has been developed to choose the tiling which minimizes the estimated error when the tile approximation of the surface is used in subsequent quantitative algorithm such as the calculation of surface area.
  • (8) When General Electric jobs left Schenectady so did a way of life Read more Patrignani proudly chats me through the bewildering array of silicone-based products Momentive makes and that end up in everything from lipstick, car parts and the adhesives that are used in stamps and bandages to airplane seats and the glue that held the tiles on the space shuttle.
  • (9) Any of the original N2 fields or composites of M adjacent tiles can be recalled to the video display for analysis.
  • (10) "There's so much graphic detail in some of the tiles that they seem to speak with a modern voice," adds Roberts.
  • (11) Tritium retention noted in graphite tiles underscores the significance of material selection in present and future 3H-fueled fusion devices.
  • (12) The efficacy of defibrillation using the damped sine and constant-tile (60%) truncated exponential waveforms was determined in each of nine dogs.
  • (13) The Glasgow Boys went after this mood with a will and set up temporary homes among the red-tiled roofs of the rural east – Cockburnspath was by no means their only base – to prospect for scenes that would do justice to an imagination fired by their heroes Corot , Millet and Bastien-Lepage.
  • (14) The genius of The Great British Bake Off Read more Viewers have seen contestants throw pots blindfolded, and create objects ranging from bone china chandeliers to decorated tiles and bathroom sinks.
  • (15) The tiles, I am told, are also Italian, the chandeliers Czech, the fridge American, the stove German.
  • (16) Ceramic samples such as tiles and bricks were collected from locations between 523 and 2,453 m from the hypocenter in Hiroshima and from between 731 and 1,565 m in Nagasaki.
  • (17) At that time X----- itself was untouched by shot and shell, the old houses in the square with their quaint red-tiled roofs, irregular as peaks of a sierra, and their higgledy-piggledy doors and windows, were as yet intact.
  • (18) Centro Cerámica Triana Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy Housed in an old ceramics factory built on the site of a 16th-century one, inevitably plonked on a Roman one, this museum (€2pp, Calle Antillano Campos 14) could do more to trumpet the industry that spawned Triana, created the look and feel of Seville, and inspired Lisbon’s artisans to have a go at the whole tile thing.
  • (19) Pictures showed a large group of people lying on polished tiled flooring, most of them near to a wall and surrounded by rubble and other debris.
  • (20) 120 Grosvenor Street, 0161 273 1552, sandbarmanchester.co.uk Marble Arch The Marble Arch pub, Manchester It's 125 years old but this handsome Victorian boozer – all glazed tile work and vintage detail – has never been busier.

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