This is informed by the nature of Islamic art. “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.

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

The title is “The Beauty and Complexity of Islamic Geometric Patterns: Historical Development and Traditional Design Methodology.” “This is a thousand-year-old tradition,” Bonner said.

There was a particular moment in history when no artistic field was immune to the influence of Islamic design, writes Cath Pound.

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 ...

Learn more about the importance and styles of the art made as part of the Muslim religion in this BBC Bitesize Primary Art and Design guide.

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 ...

A study of medieval Islamic art has shown some of its geometric patterns use principles established centuries later by modern mathematicians. Researchers in the US have found 15th Century examples ...