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2025-06-30

@MashedMen Thanks, I was going to do more but the existing construction does not generalise well. Here are the key shapes for twelve-pointed stars.

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2025-06-29

This animation has two different kinds of white shape. Curiously, I made this before the ones with only one kind of white shape. This one has two sizes of squares.
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2025-06-29

No scrolling needed for eight- and four-pointed stars like this classic stars and crosses pattern.

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2025-06-17

A generalisation of Bourgoin Plate 142 using an underlying 4-uniform tiling [334.12; 343.12; 3464; 46.12] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ (also p. 177, Keith Critchlow, Islamic Patterns) tilingsearch.mit.edu/HTML/data
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2025-06-17

Mudéjar exterior wall, Cathedral of the Savior (La Seo de Zaragoza), Zaragoza, Spain

“The long-standing rivalry between the canons of El Pilar and of La Seo was well known in the 17th century. ...[In] 1676, Pope Clement X made the Solomon-like decision to merge the two chapters via the Bull of Union. 6 prebendaries and 15 canons would reside in La Seo, and the same in El Pilar, and the dean would live 6 months in each one.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedra

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Detail of an ornate wall made of pale brown bricks and blue and turquoise tiles. The bricks make raised curvilinear lines. Inside the shapes formed are blue and green eight-pointed stars and circular bowl-like shapes. 
The overall effect is serene with mirror symmetry and some rotational symmetry.
2025-05-06

Shah-i-Zinda, Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

“The Shah-i-Zinda Ensemble includes mausoleums and other ritual buildings of 11th–15th and 19th centuries. ...meaning "The living king" … The Shah-i-Zinda complex was formed over eight (from the 11th until the 19th) centuries and now includes more than twenty buildings.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah-i-Z

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Two sets of hexagonal tiles separated by a plain border. 
The left set of tiles: interlaced white lines make hexagons and hexagrams containing yellow flowers. Red, blue and yellow polygons fill in the other areas. The hexagon tiles have a middle border of white, cyan and blue square and rectangle tiles making cross shapes. 
The right set of tiles: the centre of each tile is a cyan hexagon surrounded by white equilateral triangles and blue kites.
2025-03-05

Some good educational resources for Islamic patterns are available on the web like tilingsearch.mit.edu and metmuseum.org/learn/educators/.

However, some resources have disappeared from the web. Here's one I found one on an old disk and uploaded as archive.org/details/teachers-b: Teacher’s Booklet: Form, Shape and Space: An Exhibition of Tilings and Polyhedra, 10 October, 2007 – 16 May, 2008, by Liz Meenan and Briony Thomas.

1. Introduction to the Exhibition

2. Islamic Art
2.1 Geometry in Islamic art
2.2 Symbolism in Islamic art

3.The Alhambra Palace

4.The Platonic Solids

5. Activities
5.1 Making shapes: Equilateral triangles, hexagons and six-pointed stars using a compass and ruler
5.2 Making shapes: Squares, octagons, crosses and eight-pointed stars using a compass and ruler
5.3 Making shapes: Paper-folding polygons
5.4 Making patterns: Islamic tiling patterns using folded paper shapes
5.5 Making polyhedra: Patterned Platonic polyhedra using pull-up nets
5.6 Making polyhedra: Make your own Patterned Pull-up nets

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2025-02-18
2025-02-18

Curvy triangular grille, Milan, Italy. Reminiscent of the classic Alhambra tiling mathstodon.xyz/@foldworks/1133
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Photo of a black metal grille in the form of curvy triangles arranged like a honeycomb. A circular disc is at each vertex. In the background is an arched courtyard that has a silver car and green planting.
2025-02-11

Mudéjar style ceiling of Iglesia de Santo Domingo, Quito, Ecuador
"Christian builders and craftsmen carried Mudéjar style elements to the overseas territories of the Spanish empire...The Mudéjar "style" in architecture is most accurately described as a “common visual language” rather than a cohesive structure with particular regulations. This led to Mudejar design themes in the New World to be considered purely a continuation of an architectural blend that was unique to Spain." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud%C3%A
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Photo of a richly decorated ceiling. On the left are 12-pointed rosettes. In the middle is an arch with floral and vegetal ornaments and two portraits. On the right are 6-, 8- and 12-pointed stars. Red, white and gold colours dominate.
2025-01-14

@llimllib Nice tiling.

Yes, the Islamic patterns of Spain (Andalusia) and Morocco are related. Here’s a photo showing more of the fountain.
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A photo of a Moroccan fountain. The tiling on the wall is mainly white with colourful interlaced lines and other patterns. The centre of the pattern is a circular disc with a rectangular portion below. Tis is surrounded by a rectangle and borders with different patterns. The colours used are light blue, black, light and dark green, orange and red.
2025-01-14

Detail of a fountain, Fes, Morocco
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A photo of a tiling that is mainly white with colourful interlaced lines. The centre of the pattern is a ten-pointed star. The colours of the lines are light blue, black, light and dark green, orange and red. In some spaces between the lines are ornaments that look like stylised flowers or leaves.

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