Large Islamic Rosettes in an Octagonal Frame
John Berglund and Craig S. Kaplan

Proceedings of Bridges 2024: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Culture
Pages 139–146
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Abstract

Many traditional Islamic geometric patterns feature a single large rosette surrounded by a ring of eight satellite rosettes. We present a technique for constructing patterns in this style, which scales to rosettes larger than those executed historically. We decompose the regions between these rosettes into different characteristic regions called basic shapes, and show how to fill each basic shape with polygons that are close to regular, suitable for motif construction using the polygons-in-contact method.

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16 August 2024

On Page 7 of the supplement, the text "The tips of the dee have a smaller radius, chosen to be tangent where it meets the large radius as well as tangent to the flat line." should be "The tips of the dee have a smaller radius, chosen to be tangent where it meets the large radius and should meet the flat line at 60 degrees."