The evolution of architectural forms through computer visualisation: muqarnas example

Muqarnas is a three-dimensional form whose visual function is to provide the gradual transition between two levels, two sizes, and or two shapes. It evolved over a period of eight centuries and, later, was neglected. Nowadays, it is being copied and introduced into the architecture of the Islamic world, but only as a rigid copy and not as a living evolving form. A long research on the computerisation of muqarnas over the last two decades aimed at pushing further the evolution of this form into new possibilities.