Day 48 of 365
February 17
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Art & Culture Islamic Geometric Art
Islamic geometric art uses complex mathematical patterns to create mesmerizing designs while respecting the Islamic prohibition on depicting living beings. These patterns employ sophisticated geometry including tessellations, star polygons, and quasi-crystalline patterns that mathematicians didn't formally describe until the 1970s. Islamic artists discovered these mathematical principles centuries earlier through artistic experimentation.
💡 Did you know?
Some 15th-century Islamic tile patterns show 'quasicrystalline' symmetry that scientists thought impossible until they were discovered in nature in 1984!
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