Visualization of Polyhedra tessellation with Virtual Reality (VR) in A-frame
author: Paulo Henrique Siqueira - Universidade Federal do Paraná
contact: paulohscwb@gmail.com
versão em português
Tessellation - Flower of life 1
The figures or works that are chosen as tesserae cover or pave the plane or a surface. The result is called tessellation, tiling, paving or mosaic. Tessellations have been used since ancient times in floors, walls, carpets and other objects.
This work shows the tessellations made on all or some faces of polyhedrons, taking advantage of triangular, square, pentagonal or hexagonal symmetries of the faces of these solids.
On this page, we have tessellations made with constructions of Flower of life symbol, inserted into the faces of common polyhedra, such as Plato’s icosahedron, and rarer ones, such as the non-convex icosidodecadodecahedron. In this part of the work, each symbol petal is the size of the polyhedron edge covered by the tessellation.
3D models
1. Antiprism
tessellation type: hexagonal and triangular
2. Cubitruncated Cuboctahedron
tessellation type: hexagonal
3. Ditrigonal Dodecadodecahedron
tessellation type: pentagonal
4. Dodecadodecahedron
tessellation type: pentagonal
5. Dodecahedron with pyramids
tessellation type: pentagonal
6. Dodecahedron
tessellation type: pentagonal
7. Great Cubicuboctahedron
tessellation type: triangular
8. Great Ditrigonal Dodecicosidodecahedron
tessellation type: pentagonal
9. Great Dodecahedron
tessellation type: pentagonal
10. Great Dodecicosahedron
tessellation type: hexagonal
11. Great Dodecicosidodecahedron
tessellation type: triangular
12. Great Icosahedron
tessellation type: triangular
13. Great Icosidodecahedron
tessellation type: triangular
14. Great Truncated Cuboctahedron
tessellation type: hexagonal
15. Great Truncated Icosidodecahedron
tessellation type: hexagonal
16. Gyroelongated Square Dipyramid
tessellation type: triangular
17. Hexagrammic Antiprism
tessellation type: triangular
18. Icosahedron
tessellation type: triangular
19. Icosidodecadodecahedron
tessellation type: hexagonal
20. Icosidodecahedron with pyramids
tessellation type: pentagonal and triangular
21. Icosidodecahedron
tessellation type: pentagonal and triangular
22. Octahedron
tessellation type: triangular
23. Octahemioctahedron
tessellation type: hexagonal
24. Pentagonal Dypiramid
tessellation type: triangular
25. Pentagrammic Antiprism
tessellation type: triangular
26. Pentagrammic Crossed Antiprism
tessellation type: triangular
27. Rhombidodecadodecahedron
tessellation type: pentagonal
28. Small Ditrigonal Icosidodecahedron
tessellation type: triangular
29. Small Dodecahemicosahedron
tessellation type: hexagonal
30. Small Dodecicosahedron
tessellation type: hexagonal
31. Small Icosicosidodecahedron
tessellation type: hexagonal
32. Small Stellated Truncated Dodecahedron
tessellation type: pentagonal
33. Snub Cube with pyramids
tessellation type: quadrilateral and triangular
34. Snub Cube
tessellation type: quadrilateral and triangular
35. Snub Dodecahedron with pyramids
tessellation type: pentagonal and triangular
36. Snub Dodecahedron
tessellation type: pentagonal and triangular
37. Stellated Pyramid
tessellation type: triangular
38. Tetrahedron
tessellation type: triangular
39. Triangular Dipyramid
tessellation type: triangular
40. Triaugmented Triangular Prism
tessellation type: triangular
41. Truncated Great Icosahedron
tessellation type: hexagonal
42. Truncated Icosahedron with pyramids
tessellation type: hexagonal and pentagonal
43. Truncated Icosahedron
tessellation type: hexagonal and pentagonal
44. Truncated Octahedron with pyramids
tessellation type: quadrilateral and hexagonal
45. Truncated Octahedron
tessellation type: quadrilateral and hexagonal
46. Truncated Tetrahedron
tessellation type: hexagonal
47. Great Inverted Snub Icosidodecahedron
tessellation type: pentagonal
48. Great Retrosnub Icosidodecahedron
tessellation type: pentagonal
49. Small Retrosnub Icosicosidodecahedron
tessellation type: pentagonal
Flower of life 1: polyhedra tessellation and visualization with Virtual Reality by Paulo Henrique Siqueira is licensed with a license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International.
How to cite this work:
Siqueira, P.H., "Flower of life 1: polyhedra tessellation and visualization with Virtual Reality". Available in: <https://paulohscwb.github.io/tessellation/flower1/>, April 2026.
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