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Wallpaper on the Poincaré Half-Plane

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Frank A. Farris [1] suggests superposition of one or two functions of the form , to create wallpaper-like tilings of the Poincaré half-plane, the upper half of the complex plane. This Demonstration uses the composite function .

Contributed by: Izidor Hafner (March 2016)
(Based on work by Frank A. Farris)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

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[1] Frank A. Farris, Creating Symmetry: The Artful Mathematics of Wallpaper Patterns, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015 pp. 189–199.

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