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Re:Islamic art inspires stretchy, switchable materials by jacobolus on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @06:28PM (#11301166)
While on the subject, this upcoming indie game based on Islamic art also looks interesting:

http://www.engare.design/drawing-tool/

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Re:Islamic art inspires stretchy, switchable materials by DanBC on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @08:11PM (#11301712)
Here's a video of people making tiles for mosaic panels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-n03ano-Ak
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Re:Islamic art inspires stretchy, switchable materials by jacobolus on Thursday March 17, 2016 @02:11AM (#11302827)
Wow. Now imagine tiling the floor, walls, ceiling, and outside façade of a mosque using such handmade tiles. Insane amounts of human labor involved.

Your video sucked me into watching videos about tilemaking. :-)

This one is kind of neat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og6cTlwBTrk

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