In Islamic culture, geometry design is everywhere: you can find it in mosques, madrasas, palaces and houses. And despite the considerable complexity of these designs, they can be created with only one compass to draw circles and a ruler to draw lines within them. Eric Broug deals with the fundamentals of Islamic geometric design. Animation by TED-Ed. #SacredGeometry #Mathematics #RadialGeometry #RadialSymmetry #Spin #Mandala #Geometry #Fractal #Design #Architecture #Science #Art #Religion #Spiri

Question is do you ever use a protractor for Islamic Geometric Patterns? There's an interesting and perhaps purist culture (which I of course fully embrace!) where we love a compass and straight edge construction, but a protractor is just another tool, like so many other tools that can help us draw and create perfectly precise patterns. What do you think? p.s. this thought was born from approximate enneagon constructions in my Patreon Zoom. We discussed this little matter, especially as we were