Flying Patterns
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Jean-Marc Castéra: Flying Patterns. In: Bridges 2011. Pages 263–270
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Contribution to the investigation on Islamic pentatonic patterns, trying to highlight a multiplicity of points of view. 1. Firstly, I propose a morphogenesis of the Persian style, and give the following applications : - An analysis of two famous traditional patterns that have yet be studied through different view points. One in Karatay, Turkey (J. Rigby, [10] P. Cromwell [4]), the other in Maragha, Iran (E. Makovicky [7,8], P.J.Lu and P.J.Steinhardt[6]). Where we can see that both are basically the same, coming from the same step in the proposed morphogenesis. - The “X-puzzle”, an application from the first step of our morphogenesis (there will be a workshop at the conference).
2. Then, considerations about the “prototiles” (or “girih tiles”) point of view.
3. Last, a relationship is given between “fundamental” and Persian patterns, through a process of decoration. Consequently, definition of a new set of prototiles.
All those concepts can be used by designer to create new patterns.
This contribution belongs to a pattern designer point of view, more than to a mathematical or historical point of view. As Bridges is dedicated to a meeting of Art and Maths, but inherit a scientific format for its publications, please consider this paper as experimental in the sense that the demonstration is given by images more than by words.
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