Resources

This page has links to some of my recommended resources on the web.

Islamic Geometric Patterns

Taprats: Craig Kaplan’s an excellent applet for constructing Islamic geometric designs
www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/washington/taprats/

Islamic Star Patterns in Absolute Geometry: A paper by Craig Kaplan, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, and David Salesin, University of Washington and Microsoft Corporation, Seattle, WA
Islamic Star Patterns in Absolute Geometry

Grid Method Classification of Islamic Geometric Pattern: A paper by Ahmad M. Aljamali and Ebad Banissi
wscg.zcu.cz/wscg2003/Papers_2003/K53.pdf (links to a PDF file)

A Technique for constructing a well known five-fold geometric design
www.arabesco.co.uk/Tutorials/Geometry/Tutorial_one.asp

The Drawing of Geometric Patterns in Saracenic Art: E.H. Hankin, M.A., D.Sc.
Memoirs of the Archeological Survey of India, 1925
www.islamic-art.org/ArticlesOnline/BArchViewPage.asp?ArticleID=82&PO=1

The topkapi scroll: geometry and ornament in Islamic architecture
www.ee.bilkent.edu.tr/~history/geometry.html

Islamic Star Patterns: A paper by A.J. Lee, 1987
Muqarnas IV: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture. Oleg Grabar, ed. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
archnet.org/library/documents/one-document.tcl?document_id=3591

Muqarnas Vaulting

Jean-Marc Castera
www.castera.net/entrelacs/entrelacs.htm

Shiro Takahashi: Three-Dimentional Decoration of Islam Architecture
www.tamabi.ac.jp/idd/shiro/muqarnas

Mathematical Concepts and Computer Graphics for the Reconstruction of Stalactite Vaults - Muqarnas - in Islamic Architecture: A paper by Yvonne Dold-Samplonius, Susanne Krömker, and Michael Winckler
www.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/groups/ngg/Muqarnas/bmbf-project.html

Computational Geometry in Islamic Architecture: Web site for a course at the University of Washington, Department of Architecture, Instructor: Mamoun Sakkal
www.sakkal.com/islamic_geometry/muqarnas02.html

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