• DOI:10.2307/1576154
Corpus ID: 191368443

Tessellations in Islamic Calligraphy

@article{Ahuja1995TessellationsII,
  title={Tessellations in Islamic Calligraphy},
  author={Mangho Ahuja and Mangho A. L. Loeb},
  journal={Leonardo},
  year={1995},
  volume={28},
  pages={41 - 45}
}

Mangho Ahuja, Mangho A. L. Loeb

Published 1995

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Leonardo

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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.”