Isohedral

The website of Craig S. Kaplan

Tag: islamic

  • Generative Zellij

    Generative Zellij

    Procedurally generated Zellij compositions. Click on the drawing and press the space bar to generate a new composition. Press the ‘s’ key to download an SVG file. Yes, I am somewhat ashamed to admit that a couple of years ago, I experimented with NFTs. Look: I was younger then, and I didn’t always make the…

  • Beyond the Great 96

    Beyond the Great 96

    This is the second of two posts about papers that will appear at the Bridges 2021 conference. This paper is related to Islamic geometric patterns, and was co-authored with John Berglund. In this case I played a supporting role. The core ideas are very much due to John; I contributed a few bits here and…

  • Andromeda Reimagined

    Andromeda Reimagined

    I first learned of Burning Man from The Happy Mutant Handbook, a book of mayhem and counterculture that called out to me one day from a bookstore shelf. I’ve never participated in the festival, and probably never will, but I know many people who have and I suppose it has accumulated a quasi-mythological status in…

  • Interwoven Islamic geometric patterns

    Interwoven Islamic geometric patterns

    Anybody who has attended a Bridges conference in past ten years will be familiar with the work of Rinus Roelofs. His talks always offer an entertaining contrast: stunning and inspiring ideas in the intersection of geometry and art, balanced with his humble, low-key delivery. It was also Rinus who suggested that I try Rhino3D for…

  • Tending toward the convex

    Tending toward the convex

    I was commissioned to create an Islamic geometric design to serve as a prop on the set of an Austrian production of the play Disgraced.