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} }
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.”
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