Quilts
Two-Color Square Quilt Designs
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For each of the patterns shown, symmetries either preserve or interchange colors.
For more information see technical background.
Throughout we follow the naming conventions for the 46 two-color quilts that are
described in Symmetries of Culture, by Washburn and Crowe.
Armies of the Night. Two color repeating pattern of type c´ m (cm/pm )
created using methods based on deterministic dynamical systems. Image includes detail.
Shown in
8th New York Digital Salon.
MoonScape, 2001.
Detail from MoonScape.
Golden Textures. Two color repeating pattern created
of type p´ cgg (cmm/pgg) using methods
based on random dynamical systems. Image includes detail.
Two color repeating pattern of type pg´ g´ (pgg/p2) created using methods
based on deterministic dynamical systems.
Abstract Design. Two color repeating pattern of type pm´ g (pmg/pg) created using methods
based on random dynamical systems.
HellFire II. Two color repeating pattern of type cmm´ (cmm/cm) created using methods
based on random dynamical systems.
Shown in Art and Mathematics 2000, Cooper Union, New
York, NY, November 7-December 15, 2000; Art & Mathematics 2001,
Berkshire Community College, Mass., February 1 - March 30, 2001.
HellFire III. Two color repeating pattern of type cmm´ (cmm/cm) created 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
