期刊名称：Hyperseeing / The International Society of the Arts, Mathematics, and Architecture
出版年度：2011
卷号：2011
期号：Summer
出版社：Albany, NY : Isama
摘要：This paper will explore the conceptualization and creation of a fourteen-pointed star polygon design, found on a mimbar in the Mosque of al-Mu’ayyad in Cairo, Egypt, and also as Plate 169 of Bourgoin’s Arabic Geometrical Pattern and Design. Our exploration specifically seeks to answer the question, “How did the original designer of this pattern determine, without mensuration, the proportion and placement of the star polygons comprising this design?” In addition, we propose a plausible Euclidean “point-joining” compass-and-straightedge reconstruction for it
