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Wallpaper Patterns Generated by Complex Mapping of a Picture

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One way of visualizing a complex-valued function in the plane is to assign a unique color to each point of a certain region of the complex plane—for example, the color value on a picture of the point with coordinates and . In this way, wallpaper patterns can be produced.

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Since producing these graphics might be slow, it is recommended that you first construct small pictures at low resolution.

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Contributed by: Izidor Hafner (February 2016)
(Idea by Frank A. Farris)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

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Let be a finite group of rotational transformations in the complex plane. is a function defined on the complex plane. An average of over can be defined by

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For example, in the case we can choose the group .

This Demonstration considers also the cases for rotations of order . No periodic wallpaper pattern can be produced for .

Reference

[1] F. A. Farris, Creating Symmetry: The Artful Mathematics of Wallpaper Patterns, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015 pp. 66–67.

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