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Re:Islamic art inspires stretchy, switchable materials by jdietrich on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @09:36PM (#11302049)
Geometric forms are integral to Islamic art, because of the prohibition on depicting sentient beings.

Geometric patterns are not unique to Islamic culture, but geometry is uniquely important in Islamic art. Islamic art has been profoundly influential across Europe, the Middle East and Asia; Indeed, the English word for elaborate geometric decoration is "arabesque".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniconism_in_Islam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_geometric_patterns

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Re:Islamic art inspires stretchy, switchable materials by spriggan3 on Thursday March 17, 2016 @06:48AM (#11303589)
> Indeed, the English word for elaborate geometric decoration is "arabesque"

Which is itself a french word, not an arabic one. And arab =/= muslim ,that's my point. Islam didn't invent Geometric art. It existed in middle east and south asia well before the creation of islam.

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