Wallpaper Patterns:

Africa - Alhambra -Escher.

 
THE ALGEBRAS OF
AFRICAN WALLPAPER PATTERNS
The "science" of design is, in fact, only a simplified and specialized part of the branch of Physics devoted to the study of crystalline form, "crystallography", just as the latter, tothe mathematician, is nothing but an application of the great branch ofmathematics, the "Theory of Groups".
H.J. Woods - quoted in "Symmetry of Culture" .
Group Escher     Alhambra Africa
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left:
reptiles
right:
balcony

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