Creating Penrose-type Islamic Interlacing Patterns
John Rigby

Bridges London: Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture
Pages 41–48

Abstract

Some of the most interesting Islamic interlacing patterns involve ten-pointed stars or ten-petalled rosettes. These motifs have local ten-fold symmetry, yet they are often included as part of a plane periodic pattern, which can have no overall five- or ten-fold symmetries. Instead of using these motifs in periodic patterns, can we incorporate them in patterns based in some way on Penrose tilings (which have many local five-fold symmetries)?

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