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45•lebovic•1d ago•14 comments
Open in hackernews

Pixels in Islamic Art: Square Kufic Calligraphy (2020)

https://uwithumlaut.wordpress.com/2020/07/24/pixels-in-islamic-art-square-kufic-calligraphy/
162•fanf2•9mo ago

Comments

ChinstrapCmnty•9mo ago
Very cool!
hnlmorg•9mo ago
There's some good examples on wikipedia as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

As someone with zero exposure to Kufic script before today, some of those images, and particular the circle ones in the original article, remind me of the London Underground "Labyrinth" mazes https://www.tubeopedia.co.uk/labyrinth-locations

lproven•9mo ago
> There's some good examples on wikipedia as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

This is not the link you intended...

hnlmorg•9mo ago
Odd. It was just the wiki page for “Kufic”.
mrtksn•9mo ago
Mardin Artuklu University logo is in this style: http://www.artuklu.edu.tr

If you look closely, you should be able to see "Mardin Artuklu Üniversitesi" in the labyrinth.

brador•9mo ago
Such abstraction can be used to obfuscate information. Could they contain and have contained hidden messages? Hushed passwords to enter secret areas of the temples hidden in plain sight?
omneity•9mo ago
I always found Kufi to be a form of space-filling curves[0], which was the original purpose: a form of decoration that can fill a surface such as edges around a building[1, 2], without depicting humans in stone, a form of art historically forbidden in Islam due the prevalence of statue idolatry at the time. Hence the prevalence of geometry (Zellij [3]) and calligraphy in areas historically islamic.

Hilbert curves [4] could be the substrate (the coordinate system), and Kufi writing could be indeed encoded information maybe by XORing each point between the curve and the kufi word.

I'm just blabbering around. But it's difficult to disassociate the two in my mind.

0: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/kufi-ayat-kursi-al...

1: https://i0.wp.com/majnouna.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/...

2: https://i.pinimg.com/236x/f2/f7/e9/f2f7e99d6bfe75042313adbe6...

3: https://zellige.info/

4: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christoph-Schierz/publi...

samirillian•9mo ago
Just to clarify I don’t think that first image is Kufic script, whereas the second is the shahada (author calls it the shada)

I’m not sure about the 2 kinds of scripts claim, I think there are a few more than that.

mda•9mo ago
Not sure, I think first image is square or geometric Kufic (sometimes called "Satrancli Kûfi" in Turkish) of course looks quite different than typical Kufic script.
samirillian•9mo ago
The problem is I don't think the first one says anything, which, however stylistic, is still the point of a script. If it doesn't actually make a meaningful expression then it's not a script. What word has 20 s's in it?
Calwestjobs•9mo ago
Greatest shibboleths of them all.
mohsen1•9mo ago
I had the idea of making a QR code generator that embeds those "Kufi" "scripts" but never got to do it. Now with LLM image generators it's pretty feasible
omneity•9mo ago
Worth noting that Kufi writing originates from the region of Kufa in modern-day Iraq, also the source of the Kufiyyeh headdress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kufa

hinell•9mo ago
Incomprehensible for outsiders. Though, any script can be fit into "square" writing.
xanderlewis•9mo ago
Some more easily than others.
blacksmith_tb•9mo ago
It varies, the example from the Topkapi Scroll, with the tile-like patterns of triangles and swastikas, took me a minute to recognize (but it's been 25yr since I took Arabic as an undergrad). Some of the other examples are fun, the shahada that looks like minarets is actually mirrored text, so it reads backwards from the left and normally (well, it's super-stylized) from the right.
mvieira38•9mo ago
Why is there only an accept option for cookies?
Batman8675309•9mo ago
Because they can. I've encountered plenty of pages like this and it would seem that doing so is risk free.
otras•9mo ago
I always enjoyed the cover of Jeff Erickson‘s Algorithms book, which is al-Khwarizmi in this style.

https://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwarizmi

sudahtigabulan•9mo ago
This one is not Kufic, but it's my favorite:

https://imgur.com/a/G9RAzGv