ISLAMIC GEOMETRIC PATTERNS AS TIMELESS ARCHITECTURE

Grid Method Classification of Islamic Geometric Patterns

l classification of Islamic Geometric Patterns (IGP) based on the Minimum Number Geometric Shape (LGS) used in the construction of the symmetric elements. The eating patterns by their symmetric groups is in many cases not appropriate or try group theories do not relate to the way of thinking of the artisans involved, and ttributes of the unit pattern and has focused exclusively on arrangement f...

Islamic Architecture and Its Challenges

Computer Generated Islamic Star Patterns

Islamic star patterns are a beautiful and highly geometric art form whose original design techniques are lost in history. We describe one procedure for constructing them based on placing radially-symmetric motifs in a formation dictated by a tiling of the plane, and show some styles in which they can be rendered. We also show some results generated with a software implementation of the technique.

Hyperbolic Islamic Patterns — A Beginning

For more than a millennium, Islamic artists and craftsmen have used geometric patterns to decorate buildings, cloth, pottery, and other artifacts. Many of these patterns were “wallpaper” patterns — they were planar patterns that repeated in two different directions. Recently related patterns have also been drawn on the Platonic solids, which can conceptually be projected outward onto their circ...

Fractal Islamic Geometric Patterns Based on Arrangements of {n/2} Stars

Within traditional Islamic geometric design, there is a small but distinct subset of patterns which incorporate notions of self-similarity. Such patterns typically use exactly two overlapping levels of self-similarity, with each level comprising similar motifs at two different, related scales. Recently I have constructed a large number of fractal Islamic patterns that pursue a different notion ...