1995/01/01 by Mangho Ahuja, Arthur L. Loeb · 11 citations
Materials Science · Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Quasicrystal Structures and Properties #Global Maritime and Colonial Histories #Ancient Egypt and Archaeology #Calligraphy #Islam #Art #Visual arts #Geography #Archaeology #Painting
paper · doi:10.2307/1576154
published in Leonardo 28(1), 41 (The MIT Press)
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The authors provide a brief history of the art of calligraphy in Muslim cultures, highlighting examples of tessellations of words. The underlying principles for designing a word tessellation inscribed in a hexagon are discussed, and a test for determining which words can be tessellated is provided. The authors demonstrate their attempts at tessellating the word “Ali.”