Bridges 2010 Short Paper
Alhambra's Nazari Single Tile Patterns Guided Tour
Jesús Hernando
(Proceedings pages 363–366)
Abstract
In the School Year 2006-07 our Institution took part in a European
Comenius Project called Partners in Patterns. Our work was related
to the elaboration of patterns generated by plane movements of
simple Escher-style tiles. We took as models the Alhambra's nazari
mosaics that were part of our cultural heritage. For that purpose
we used Dynamic Geometry Software (DGS) called Geogebra, which was
well-accepted by our students. We planned as a first stage to study
those tessellations that involve only one tile shape. After that
we decided to represent in eight poster scenes the Alhambra's Nazari
Single Tile Patterns Guided Tour in order to appreciate in a different
way either a visit to the Alhambra's Palaces or the study of Geometry.
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