Damn. This tiling is absolutely beautiful,, and mathematically superior. It also turns out that medieval Muslims were far smarter than their European counterparts.
Magnificently sophisticated geometric patterns in medieval Islamic architecture indicate their designers achieved a mathematical breakthrough 500 years earlier than Western scholars, scientists said on Thursday.
By the 15th century, decorative tile patterns on these masterpieces of Islamic architecture reached such complexity that a small number boasted what seem to be "quasicrystalline" designs, Harvard University's Peter Lu and Princeton University's Paul Steinhardt wrote in the journal Science.
Only in the 1970s did British mathematician and cosmologist Roger Penrose become the first to describe these geometric designs in the West. Quasicrystalline patterns comprise a set of interlocking units whose pattern never repeats, even when extended infinitely in all directions, and possess a special form of symmetry.
"Oh, it's absolutely stunning," Lu said in an interview. "They made tilings that reflect mathematics that were so sophisticated that we didn't figure it out until the last 20 or 30 years."
Take a look at this tile work. it's magnificent.
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Here's One For the Duh! Files
Bush doesn't want Congress limiting his war authorities.
The White House said Friday it would oppose any attempt by Senate Democrats to revoke the 2002 congressional resolution authorizing the war in Iraq and leave U.S. troops with a limited mission as they prepare to withdraw.
Well, duh! Here we have a group of war-mongering men, who are far more comfortable sending you to war, than fighting themselves, that have, for all intents and purposes, co-opted the US Constitution to justify going to war, stripping habeas corpus, restricting civil liberties, etc. Of course the administration isn't going to like being put into the position of following the law and the US Constitution, as is their sworn duty.Amazing Tile-Work
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