The NNJ Virtual Library: Patterns, Pattern Design, Tilings

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Critchlow, Keith. Islamic Patterns: An Analytical and Cosmological Approach (New York:reprinted by Thames and Hudson, 1992).

Crowe, Donald W. and Dorothy K. Washburn. Symmetries of Culture: Theory and Practice of Plane Pattern Analysis. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1988.

Devlin, Keith J. . Mathematics : The Science of Patterns : The Search for Order in Life, Mind and the Universe Scientific American Paperback Library.(W H Freeman, 1997).

Field, Michael and Martin Golubitsky, Symmetry in Chaos: A Search for Pattern in Mathematics, Art and Nature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992).

Field, Michael and Martin Golubitsky. Chaotische Symmetrien, Micha Lotrovsky, trans. (Basel: Birkhauser, 1993). German translation of Symmetry in Chaos.

Field, Michael and Martin Golubitsky. La Symetrie du Chaos, Christian Jeanmougin, trans. (Paris: Inter Editions, 1993). French translation of Symmetry in Chaos.

Gombrich, Ernst Hans . The Sense of Order : A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art. The Wrightsman Lectures, V. 9. (Phaidon Press, 1995).

Grant, Lindy and Richard Mortimer, eds. Westminster Abbey: The Cosmati Pavements. Courtauld Institute Research Papers, 3. Ashgate Publishing, 2002. Reviewed by John Sharp in the NNJ vol. 5 no. 2

Grunbaum, B. and G.C. Shepard. Tilings and Patterns. (W.H.Freeman, 1986).

Pajares-Ayuela, Paloma. Cosmatesque Ornament: Flat Polychrome Geometric Patterns in Architecture. Maria Fleming Alvarez, trans. (London and New York: WW Norton, 2001). Reviewed by Kim Williams in the NNJ vol. 5 no. 2

Stevens, Peter S. and C. Peter Stevens. Handbook of Regular Patterns : An Introduction to Symmetry in Two Dimensions. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992).

Seymour, D. and J. Britton, Introduction to Tesselations (Palo Alto, Canada: Kale Seymour Publications, 1989). Referenced in Reza Sarhangi's article in the NNJ vol. 1 no. 3.

Stevens, Peter S. Patterns in Nature. Out of print.

Washburn, Dorothy K. and Donald W. Crowe. Symmetries of Culture: Theory and Practice of Plane Pattern Analysis (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1988; paperback ed., 1991).

Williams, Kim. Italian Pavements: Patterns in Space (Houston: Anchorage Press, 1997). Referenced in John Sharp's article in NNJ vol. 5 no. 2.

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