Girih Tiles for Interactive Islamic Designs

3D print and assemble your own classic Islamic-style artwork by using Girih tiles to build intricate woven strapwork! The tiling pattern in the photo is rotationally symmetric. On the left are the basic colorful tile shapes. Towards the middle we have started to add the overlaid strapwork, which is completely determined by the tiles. On the right, we added gray mosaic tiles to obscure the original tiles and reveal the strapwork pattern. [Girih tiles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girih_tiles) are used in Islamic art and architecture to create intricate woven strapwork patterns. The underlying periodic patterns that create these designs are related to [Penrose tilings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_tiling) and [predate the formal mathematical discoveries](http://science.sciencemag.org/content/315/5815/1106.full) of such tilings by at least 500 years. *Photo by Guy Sie*