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Watch Those Wheels
Have you ever noticed the patterns in car wheel trims? These
questions will make you look at car wheels in a different way!
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pageMaking Maths: Indian Window Screen
Can you recreate this Indian screen pattern? Can you make up similar patterns of your own?
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articleFrieze Patterns in Cast Iron
A gallery of beautiful photos of cast ironwork friezes in Australia with a mathematical discussion of the classification of frieze patterns.
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articleThe Frieze Tree
Patterns that repeat in a line are strangely interesting. How many types are there and how do you tell one type from another?
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articlePaint Rollers for Frieze Patterns
Proofs that there are only seven frieze patterns involve complicated group theory. The symmetries of a cylinder provide an easier approach.