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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A theoretical model for the circular arrays of neurons that are found in cortical barrel structures is presented. If the connection stencil is ...

Remember the graph paper you used at school, the kind that’s covered with tiny squares? It’s the perfect illustration of what mathematicians call a “periodic tiling of space”, with shapes covering an ...

Cultural factors affecting perception of the different symmetry combinations in the seven one-dimensional band patterns were studied by giving production, preference and perception tasks to art ...

Iranian game maker Mahdi Bahrami’s Engare allows users to create their own intricate patterns found in Islamic art and architecture. The intricate geometric patterns of Islamic art are not only ...

The complex geometrical designs used centuries ago in Islamic art and architecture were planned with a tiling system that was not discovered in the West until five centuries later, two physicists have ...