girih in A Sentence

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    Girih are lines(strapwork) that decorate the tiles.

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    Stylized plant decorations were sometimes co-ordinated with Girih.

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    Girih are lines(strapwork) which decorate the tiles.

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    Girih patterns can be created in woodwork in two different ways.

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    The Anonymous Compendium contains square repeat units for many Girih patterns.

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    In the 14th century, Girih became a minor element in the decorative arts;

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    In the same period, artisans compiled Girih pattern books such as the Topkapı Scroll.

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    Girih patterns have been used to decorate varied materials including stone screens, as at Fatehpur Sikri;

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    After the Safavid period, the use of Girih continued in the Seljuk and Ilkhanid periods.

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    Girih patterns can be created in a variety of ways, including the traditional compass and straightedge;

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    The 15th century Topkapı Scroll explicitly shows Girih patterns together with the tilings used to create them.

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    Girih decoration is believed to have been inspired by Syrian Roman knotwork patterns from the 2nd century AD.

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    However, the decagon has two possible Girih patterns one of which has only fivefold rather than tenfold rotational symmetry.

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    The Girih style of ornamentation is thought to have been inspired by 2nd century AD Syrian Roman knotwork patterns.

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    The Topkapı Scroll, from the late 15th century, documents the use of Girih tiles to create Girih patterns.

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    And the use of a set of Girih tiles with lines drawn on them: the lines form the pattern.

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    It is known that the Girih designs before the Girih tiles were made with only a line and a compass.

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    The term“Girih” was used in Turkish for polygonal strap patterns in architecture as early as the late 15th century.

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    The earliest proof of the first use of the entrance tiles for Girih designs belongs to about 1200 years.[one].

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    In most cases, only the Girih(and other minor decorations like flowers) are visible rather than the boundaries of the tiles themselves.

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    Most tiles have a unique pattern of Girih inside the tile that are continuous and follow the symmetry of the tile.

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    The Girih are piece-wise straight lines that cross the boundaries of the tiles at the center of an edge at 54°(3π/10) to the edge.

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    While curvilinear precedents of Girih were seen in the 10th century, fully developed Girih patterns were not seen before the 11th century in Iran.

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    The drawings in this pattern book show the Girih lines superimposed on the tiles used to generate the pattern, making the construction fully evident.

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    It became a dominant design element in the 11th and 12th centuries, as in the carved stucco panels with interlaced Girih of the Kharraqan towers(1067) near Qazvin, Iran.

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    Drawings such as shown on this scroll would have served as pattern-books for the artisans who fabricated the tiles, and the shapes of the Girih tiles dictated how they could be combined into large patterns.

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    In 2007, Professor Peter Lu of Harvard University and Professor Paul Steinhardt of Princeton University published a paper in the journal Science suggesting that Girih tilings possessed properties consistent with self-similar fractal quasicrystalline tilings such as the Penrose tilings, predating them by five centuries.

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    In 2007, Peter J. Lu of Harvard University and Professor Paul J. Steinhardt of Princeton University published a paper in the journal Science suggesting that Girih tilings possessed properties consistent with self-similar fractal quasicrystalline tilings such as Penrose tilings(presentation 1974, predecessor works starting in about 1964) predating them by five centuries.

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