“You’ve got this lovely pattern and you sit and look at it for a long time,” Todd says of both Islamic art and good video game puzzle design.

[4] Geometric proportions: The underlying structure of design process for Islamic geometric patterns. Frontiers of Architectural Research (2012). Back to "Architectural History, Theory and Criticism" ...

The Beauty and Complexity of Islamic Geometric Patterns: Historical Development and Traditional Design Methodology,” book signing and talk by Jay Bonner, part of the Dean’s Lecture series 7:30 ...

The Islamic designs echo quasicrystalline geometry in that both use symmetrical polygonal shapes to create patterns that can be extended indefinitely without repetition. Until now, the conventional ...

Nature is often an inspiration for artists. In some art from the Islamic world, you will find repeating patterns of flowers and plants. These patterns can be seen on everything from rugs and ...

Carlo Bugatti, one of the most innovative furniture designers of the late 19th and early 20th Century, would also use Islamic design effects, such as muqarnas and horseshoe arches, in his designs.

Whether a carpet with motifs that seem to flow beyond the fabric’s edges or walls teeming with interlocking patterns whose figure-ground relationships are at times ambiguous, Islamic geometrics ...

Medieval Islamic artisans seem to have developed a procedure for creating jigsawlike mosaics that ultimately led them to an exotic pattern that mathematicians would discover nearly half a ...

Islamic geometric patterns and architecture represent a profound synthesis of mathematical precision and artistic expression inherent in centuries of cultural heritage.