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  2. Mandala Tattoos Explained: Meaning, Design Ideas, And ... - AOL

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    From tiny, delicate patterns to bold, sprawling works of art, mandala tattoos showcase harmony and symmetry in every detail — a reflection of centuries-old spiritual traditions, religious ...

  3. Mandala - Wikipedia

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    Mandala of Buddhas is the mandala consisting of nine major Buddhas of the past and the present Gautama Buddha occupying the ten directions. Mandala of Eight Devis includes the eight Devis occupying and protecting the eight corners of the Universe. In Sigālovāda Sutta, Buddha describes the relationships of a common lay persons in Mandala style.

  4. Islamic geometric patterns - Wikipedia

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    The complexity and variety of patterns used evolved from simple stars and lozenges in the ninth century, through a variety of 6- to 13-point patterns by the 13th century, and finally to include also 14- and 16-point stars in the sixteenth century. Geometric patterns occur in a variety of forms in Islamic art and architecture.

  5. Kolam - Wikipedia

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    a pattern in which a stroke runs around each dot incompletely, but open. a pattern in which strokes (kodu / kotto) are connected between the dots. Sometimes they represent kinds of objects, flowers, or animals. a pattern in which dots are set in a radial arrangement, called lotus. a pattern which is drawn freestyle and mostly coloured ...

  6. Symmetry - Wikipedia

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    Symmetries are central to the art of M.C. Escher and the many applications of tessellation in art and craft forms such as wallpaper, ceramic tilework such as in Islamic geometric decoration, batik, ikat, carpet-making, and many kinds of textile and embroidery patterns. [46] Symmetry is also used in designing logos. [47]

  7. Patterns in nature - Wikipedia

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    Composite patterns: aphids and newly born young in arraylike clusters on sycamore leaf, divided into polygons by veins, which are avoided by the young aphids Living things like orchids, hummingbirds, and the peacock's tail have abstract designs with a beauty of form, pattern and colour that artists struggle to match. [21]

  8. Sand mandala - Wikipedia

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    Before laying down the sand, the monks assigned to the project will draw the geometric measurements associated with the mandala. The sand granules are then applied using small tubes, funnels, and scrapers, called chak-pur, until the desired pattern is achieved. Sand mandalas traditionally take several weeks to build due to the large amount of ...

  9. Penrose tiling - Wikipedia

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    The pattern represented by every finite patch of tiles in a Penrose tiling occurs infinitely many times throughout the tiling. They are quasicrystals: implemented as a physical structure a Penrose tiling will produce diffraction patterns with Bragg peaks and five-fold symmetry, revealing the repeated patterns and fixed orientations of its tiles ...