For the purpose of cultural heritage preservation, the task of reconstructing eroded and visually complicated architectural geometrical patterns is facing many practical challenges. Existing recording techniques have many limitations when dealing with patterns that are deteriorated or visually unclear. Unfortunately, until today, the task of reconstructing these patterns is still performed manu...

In this paper, a proposed system for classify Islamic geometric patterns with emphasis on representation and recognition stages is introduced. Finding a unique feature for classify IGPs is a hard work that hasn’t been done since today because of the diversity of their different structure. To implement this technique, we use shape based classification. Geometric central moments have been utilize...

1. Among the many different star-like motifs used in the geometrical art of Islam, there is one which stands out as distinctively "Islamic" (see fig. 1). We shall call this motif a geometric rosette, since it resembles a flower or rosette, with an outer ring formed by a variable number of "petals" encircling a central star. One possible interpretation of the formal, if not historical, origin of...

Al Haram Al Shrif in Makkah is the holiest spot on the earth to Muslims. Every year about 14 million people are visiting the place from around the world, this number is increasing over the coming years. No author so far has been able to offer a fundamental study on its patterns, although there are many studies on Islamic patterns on other Islamic sites like Al Hambra and Al-Andolothia Mosque in...

islamic architecture has a fundamental dignity and tries to preserve the spiritual and immortal elements. the most sensible characteristic of this type of art is the compatibility with the nature of islam; monotheism, which the mosque architecture provides the best bed for such purpose. the main model for constructing mosques, from both outward and internal spiritual truths point of view, is th...

The problem of the current research has been represented by the lack of studies on the foundations of forming the proportional relations in the Islamic architecture. The objective of the study was defined in an attempt to reveal the concepts and the items of the system of proportional relations in the Islamic architecture. The proportion in architecture either derived from the mathematical matr...

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 ...

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...

This paper investigates the ways in which terrorism is linked to education and poverty using data newly culled from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) documentary sources. The paper presents a statistical analysis of the determinants of participation in terrorist activities by members of the Hamas and PIJ between the late 1980s and May 2002. The resulting evidence suggests that both high...