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.
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.
Abstract design. Repeating pattern of type p4 constructed using methods based on
random dynamical systems.
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.
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.
DNA Quilt.
Repeating pattern of type pgg constructed using methods based on
random dynamical systems.
Repeating pattern of type pm constructed using methods based on deterministic dynamical systems.
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.
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.
Twisted symmetries. Repeating pattern of type p4g constructed using methods based on
random dynamical systems.
email: mikefield@gmail.com
Professor Mike Field
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
