Dating back to the early Islamic period, these designs were developed using a set of mathematical principles. Islamic art was characterized by utilizing geometric patterns in a distinct manner owing ...

The paper, published recently in PLOS One, describes an investigation of 112 ostrich eggshell fragments dating back more than ...

It is a delight to hunt for the urban symbols that artist Joe Feddersen embeds in his woven baskets, prints, ceramics and glassworks. A seemingly abstract geometric pattern may appear as a traditional ...

A researcher in the US reports to have found the first examples of perfect quasicrystal patterns in Islamic architecture. Her upcoming paper also describes how the designers were creating these ...