Wallpaper Designs of Mirror Curves Inspired by African Sona

Year: 2013 Authors: Darrah Chavey

Core claim

For every rectangular wallpaper symmetry group, there are positive-density families of Chokwe-inspired monolinear mirror curves on arbitrarily large rectangles.

Topics

African sona, wallpaper symmetry groups, monolinear mirror curves, asymptotic density

Domains

Euclidean symmetry, Eulerian circuits, lattice rectangles, number theory, ethnomathematical art, pattern design, visual ornament, Celtic knot comparison

Methods

mirror-wall construction, case-by-case family search, density calculation, symmetry classification

Media

sand drawings, dot grids, rectangular mirror walls, curvilinear line drawings

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