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Symmetry: Culture and Science
Volume 33, Number 1, pages 055-068 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.26830/symmetry_2022_1_055

CAD GEOMETRY FOR THE TRADITIONAL TASTIR STYLE MOROCCAN AND ANDALUSIAN 16-FOLD ROSETTES

Zouhair Ouazene^1*, Rachid Benslimane², Aziz Khamjane³

¹ Laboratory of Innovative Technologies, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University Fez, Morocco.
E-mail: zouhair.ouazene@usmba.ac.ma
ORCID: 0000-0003-3257-2460

² Laboratory of Innovative Technologies, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University Fez, Morocco.
E-mail: rachid.benslimane@usmba.ac.ma
ORCID: 0000-0002-7530-8929

³ Laboratory of Applied Sciences, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetouan, Morocco.
E-mail: aziz.khamjane@usmba.ac.ma
ORCID: 0000-0002-3508-8968

^* corresponding author

Abstract: Thanks to its beauty and its mathematical rigor, Islamic art has attracted the attention of crystallographers, mathematicians, designers, artists, and architects. Among scientific literature, various works have been performed to analyze the mathematical structures of its ornaments and investigate their construction techniques. This paper will first analyze the traditional Tastir style to design the sixteen-fold rosettes frequently used in Moroccan and Andalusian geometric art. Based on this analysis, we will then propose a computerized method to construct patterns with a sixteen-fold rosette.

Keywords: symmetry, Islamic art, geometric art, traditional geometry, Tastir style, star shapes, rosettes.

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