Math is a language that we use everywhere and use in almost everything we do. The video I chose is a Ted Ed video called, “The Complex geometry of Islamic design”, by Eric Broug. There are many reasons that lead me to choose this video. First, Mr.Petersen said it was a really good video to watch and to reflect on, and I trust that because I know he has watched it, and because he is my math teacher. Next, I love and enjoy learning about the many different cultures in the world and religions, so I thought this would be a very cool and interesting video for me to reflect on. This video covered geometry, but not just regular geometry but a more complex geometry that was used in the Islamic culture to make patterns in their art, and dates to the 8th century CE which was a “golden age” in Islamic history. I enjoyed watching this video a lot and understood it very well as I thought the narrator of the video explained it very well and made it easy to understand. I understood that Islamic people used these complex geometry shapes to make patterns in their art and is on many places that people go to and can visit such as mosques, palaces, and madrasas. I found this topic very cool and loved the visuals they showed to help me learn as I am a visual learner. What blew my mind is that they make all these patterns with just a pencil, ruler, and a math compass! Something that is also really cool from the video, is that all these unique patterns they create start with making a circle and splitting it into 4, 5 or 6 even sections! This video made me feel very motivated and inspired to go draw some of these patterns, and maybe even paint it to put around the house! During the process of writing this reflection and watching the video, I felt curious of how the Islamic people came up with the idea in their head that combining these shapes together would look great for decoration as it would make unique patterns. I wonder if another culture came up with the idea to create these shapes that would make this pattern, and just the idea in general before the Islamic people and the Islamic people made it better and changed it a bit? I wonder if there are stores near us here in Port Coquitlam that sell art or any art galleries that are displaying art, and specifically art that has patterns either from the Islamic culture like the ones we saw, or with patterns that are inspired by the patterns the Islamic people started making thousands of years ago? Does the Islamic culture still have these patterns in their art now a days? (Not including art on mosques etc.) Wow this was an awesome video that taught me so much about the patterns the Islamic culture created thousands of years ago, and I loved the video because I learned so much information from it I did not know before!
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