# Tessellation

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tessellation/308100>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 17, 2010, 8:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tessellation/308100 "2010-04-17T08:12:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![DaveMania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5daacb/32.png) [@DaveMania](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/DaveMania)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 8:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tessellation/308100/1 "2010-04-17T08:12:52Z")

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Ok, so this is way over my head and I need to learn fast.  
I’m curious as to wether tessellating shapes in flash is doable. This will be only quadrilaterals. The idea is to create a zooming gallery (silverlight-esque) where the older an item is the smaller it gets.

![](http://upload.davemania.com/uploads/tessellation.gif)

The smallest piece of advice is welcome.  
Thanks.

p.s. It doesn’t have to be neat or aligned to a grid. So I may just use some sort of [physics based thing](http://www.flashwonderland.com/box2d-physics-collision-detection/contact-listener-1.html) and allow a bunch of shapes to fall together.