PDF, too, if you like such things: record_label_jali.pdf. Made with OpenSCAD.
you can colour this in if you want to
Tag: geometry
knotwork + strapwork
Self-similar petals
Original drawn in hand-coded PostScript from a path worked out using InkScape. Translating from InkScape’s SVG paths to PostScript is slightly annoying: PS uses Cartesian conventions, while SVG inverts the Y-axis. At least the SVG path commands map well to PostScript: m → moveto, c → curveto, Z → closepath, S → stroke.
There’s no magic to this figure. Each row of petals is half the length of the row outside it. As there are 6 petals arranged in a circle, each petal is 60° of arc. To make the half-step between rows, the petals are rotated 30°, so the rows have to be scaled by sin 30°, or ½.
Instagram filter used: Normal
not much of anything really
Tidied-up edition of Bourgoin’s Arabic Geometrical Design sourcebook on archive.org
Just uploaded Les éléments de l’art arabe: Le trait des entrelacs by Jules Bourgoin (aka Arabic Geometrical Pattern & Design) to archive.org. This is much cleaned up from the Google Books scan, which had many duplicate pages and no metadata.
This is much better than the (now returned) Kindle edition …