Abu Dhabi Louvre and the US-patent for islamic arts

The visual patterns that we see in Islamic art is older tham the patent system. Is a commom pattern in a special kind of solid state in the Nature, the quasicrystalsand Islamic geometric patterns, from 14th century to the nowadays, in the so called Zellige tilework and many other cultural manifestations.

There are many classic architectural works, mainlly at mausoleum and mosque domes, with the same pattern: see e.g. Lotfollah Mosque and Hafez Tomb internal domes, Saha mausoleum external dome, and many others.
All of them was handmade, with no computer algorithm helping architects and artists to do the glorious work.

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Today, nov. 11, 2017, the public will be able to enter in a modern dome with the same Islamic visual art, the largest structure covered by this pattern, and the first famous one that was made with intense use of computers.

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