Comment on "Decagonal and quasi-crystalline tilings in medieval Islamic architecture".
Lu and Steinhardt (Reports, 23 February 2007, p. 1106) claimed the discovery of a large, potentially quasi-crystalline Islamic tiling in the Darb-i Imam shrine but regard the earlier Maragha tiling, previously described as quasiperiodic, as a small isolated motif. We demonstrate that the Darb-i Imam pattern is periodic and that the quasi-crystalline discs superimposed on its lattice are derivatives of the Maragha pattern.
Makovicky
Emil
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Department of Geography and Geology, University of Copenhagen, Oestervoldgade 10, Copenhagen DK1350, Denmark. emilm@geol.ku.dk