Editing Pattern (section)

=== Tilings ===
[[File:Enderun library Topkapi 42.JPG|thumb|Elaborate ceramic tiles at [[Topkapi Palace]]]]
{{further|Tessellation|Tile}}

In visual art, pattern consists in regularity which in some way "organizes surfaces or structures in a consistent, regular manner." At its simplest, a pattern in art may be a geometric or other repeating shape in a [[painting]], [[drawing]], [[tapestry]], ceramic [[Tile|tiling]] or [[carpet]], but a pattern need not necessarily repeat exactly as long as it provides some form or organizing "skeleton" in the artwork.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://char.txa.cornell.edu/language/element/pattern/pattern.htm | title=Art, Design, and Visual Thinking | publisher=Cornell University | work=Pattern | year=1995 | access-date=12 December 2012 | author=Jirousek, Charlotte}}</ref> In mathematics, a [[tessellation]] is the tiling of a plane using one or more geometric shapes (which mathematicians call tiles), with no overlaps and no gaps.<ref name=Grunbaum>{{cite book|last=Grünbaum|first=Branko|title=Tilings and Patterns|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_0716711931|url-access=registration|year=1987|publisher=W. H. Freeman|location=New York|author2=Shephard, G. C.|isbn=9780716711933}}</ref>