I wonder at the artisans who had to join these tiles to create that perfect symmetry. Could such dedication be found today? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! sowhatifit'sdark: Thanks Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
My math is far too weak to fully appreciate the patterns except aesthetically, which I do, but I found the properties of these tiles very interesting. http://www.uwgb.edu/DutchS/symmetry/penrose.htm
the intrique designs within engineering control systems are way more dedicated to the goal than these tile designs. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Control System engineering with aerospace sector are way more complicated and devoted to one systematic goal...by ways of matrix linear algebra calculations embedded within control system designs. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
At first glance, they appear to be the work of masterful artists. However, they were only forced to make patterns like these because depiction of the human form is forbidden. Every time I see these examples, I can only think of how it must be, as an artist, to live in such a totalitarian state.
In some articles on these tiles I see 500 years ago, in others 800. Shall we peek over in Europe and see what some of the totalitarian states were doing there and how free artists were? Or what started, about 500 years ago, in the New World? Come on. Oddly enough, there are people today in the west who make abstract patterns in tile. In a general way I do agree with you. I dislike how nearly all cultures have limited humans and artists unnecessarily, but in this context yours seemed an odd contribution.
So there is example of Penrose tiling from the Western artists of the time? Mughal miniature art : Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Islamic metalwork Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
More Penrose tiling in arabesque: Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! More Islamic metalwork: The axe has calligraphy on it spelling out the name Ali (علي) forwards and backwards Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
OK, perhaps I was exaggerating about the lack of human forms, but they certainly seem rather 2-dimensional.
I think they were into more detail work than brushstrokes. Much of Islamic art is highly characterised by attention to minutae. Like calligraphy: Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Or marble latticework: Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! And the tiling.
More calligraphy in Penrose in a niche (mihrab) of a mosque: Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Its interesting how they must have worked out the precision to the nth decimal.