Quilts



Square Quilt Designs



Click on images to enlarge. Go HERE for two-color square quilt designs. Throughout we follow the notation for repeating patterns described, for example, in Symmetries of Culture, Washburn and Crowe. For brief technical information go HERE.
Fly Quilt. Repeating pattern of type cm constructed using methods based on random dynamical systems.
Fly Quilt
HellFire Quilt. Repeating pattern of type cmm constructed using methods based on random dynamical systems.
Original shown in The Frontier between art and Science, International Exhibition, Spain.
HellFire Quilt
Abstract design. Repeating pattern of type p4 constructed using methods based on random dynamical systems.
Abstract design
Metallica. Repeating pattern type p4m constructed using methods based on deterministic dynamical systems.
Shown in Science in the Arts - Art in the Sciences exhibition in Budapest, June/July, 1999.
Metallica and detail
Black and Blue. Repeating pattern of type p4m constructed using methods based on deterministic dynamical systems.
Shown in Art and Mathematics 2000, Cooper Union exhibition in New York, November, 2000.
Black and Blue
DNA Quilt. Repeating pattern of type pgg constructed using methods based on random dynamical systems.
DNA Quilt
Repeating pattern of type pm constructed using methods based on deterministic dynamical systems.
Untitled
Blue Columns. Repeating pattern of type pmg constructed using methods based on random dynamical systems.
Shown in The Frontier between art and Science, International Exhibition, 1999-2001, various locations.
Blue Columns
Study for Alhambra. Repeating pattern of type pmm constructed using methods based on deterministic dynamical systems.
Shown in The Frontier between art and Science, International Exhibition - Granada only.
Study for Alhambra
Twisted symmetries. Repeating pattern of type p4g constructed using methods based on random dynamical systems.
Twisted symmetries

email: mikefield@gmail.com

Professor Mike Field
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106