Article · The Wandering Cartographer
Constructing Bourgoin's Figure 171 – Part 2
By Morgan Hite
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Advanced
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2022
About this lesson
A 20-step compass-and-straightedge construction of a pentagon-based Islamic pattern from Bourgoin's plates, with a figure for every step: locating rosette centres, dividing into pentagons and extending the pattern across the field.
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