Interlace Patterns Emerging in a Penrose-Type Islamic Design
Proceedings of Bridges 2024: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Culture
Pages 163–170
Regular Papers
Abstract
An aperiodic Penrose P2 tiling is decorated following the traditional Girih rules of medieval Islamic geometric art. The resulting strapwork strands form an apparently infinite number of closed loop shapes, simple knots, and complex knots. Organizing principles are identified that describe symmetries and patterns of self-similarity observed among selected strands. These characteristics are quite different from the small number of distinct strands observed in traditionally decorated Islamic periodic tilings.