Craig S. Kaplan.
Computer Generated Islamic Star Patterns.
In Bridges 2000:
Mathematical Connections in Art, Music and Science, 2000.
Abstract
Islamic star patterns are a beautiful and highly geometric art
form whose original design techniques are lost in history.
We describe one procedure for constructing them based on placing
radially-symmetric motifs in a formation dictated by a tiling of the
plane, and show some styles in which they can be rendered.
We also show some results generated with a software implementation
of the technique.