HolyMath

HolyMath starts from the geometry of the Islamic Golden Age and the mathematicians linked with it, among them Al-Khwarizmi and Omar Khayyam. The works are tessellations: one unit repeated across a grid under rules of symmetry. Mammadov wrote the system in p5.js. A small set of parameters, including line width, angle and symmetry type, decides each composition, and the grid changes from work to work. Colour comes from palettes chosen by hand, laid over watercolour and papyrus textures. Draft lines and measurement notes stay beside the finished pattern, as on a geometer's working sheet. There are 1,000 works.