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Symmetry: Culture and Science
Volume 31, Number 2, pages 199-221 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.26830/symmetry_2020_2_199

THE POINT-JOINED TECHNIQUES IN ISLAMIC GEOMETRIC PATTERNS IN IRAN

Sam Moradzadeh^1*, Ahad Nejad Ebrahimi²

¹ Department of Architecture and Urbanism, Tabriz Islamic Art University, Azadi Blvd, Hakim Nizami Ganjavi Sq. Tabriz, IRAN
E-mail: sam.moradzade@gmail.com; s.moradzadeh@tabriziau.ac.ir
ORCID: 0000-0001-6221-1426

² Department of Architecture and Urbanism, Tabriz Islamic Art University, Azadi Blvd, Hakim Nizami Ganjavi Sq. Tabriz, IRAN
E-mail: ahadebrahimi@tabriziau.ac.ir
ORCID: 0000-0001-6025-1942

^* corresponding author

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the point-joined method in Islamic geometric patterns in the Iran region and the concepts behind it. Using historical documents, interviews, and scrolls, this study introduces the different techniques for drawing various kinds of patterns. The outputs showed that both the point-joined and the Polygonal methods have strengths and weaknesses. This study effectively answers the question regarding the correlation between the great arrangement dual-level design in Darb-I-Imam and quasi-periodic order. Further studies and works are needed to establish symmetries in other sets of art and a higher level of design.

Keywords: Girih, Shahgirih, Point-joined method, Polygon in contract, Quasi-periodic

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