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MC Escher
An irregular tessellation is a tesselation made of irregular shapes. Escher is famous for drawing these with animals in them.
What are tessellations? A tessellation is a series of shapes that cover a plane without any gaps. It could be like the tile in your shower. This concept was turned into art by M. C. Escher. More background can be found at the related link below.
Just look around you...On your house, there are brick walls. These are examples of non-regular tessellations...Look at pictures of honeycombs that bees live in. Those are examples of regular tessellations...Go on google or whatever you use and look up the artwork of M.C. Escher.
Escher tessellations are not true mathematical tessellations. A mathematical tessellation uses multiple copies of the sameshape (or a small number of shapes) to cover an infinite plane without gaps or overlaps.Escher's art covers a finite area, not a plane. Also, his shapes are not exact copies but change gradually across the area covered. Some examples are:the base of Reptiles,Sky and wtaerDay and nightMetamorphosis IVerbum.