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The Geometry of Islamic Art Becomes a Treasure of a Game (arstechnica.com)
Sam Machkovech from Ars Technica reviews the game Engare, describing it as a "clever, deceptively simple, and beautiful rumination on geometry and Islamic art-making traditions." The game consists of relatively simple puzzles and a freeform art toy that unlocks its puzzles' tools to allow you to make whatever patterns you please. From the report: The game, made almost entirely by 23-year-old Iranian developer Mahdi Bahrami, starts with a 2D scene of a circle repeatedly traveling along a line. Above this, an instructional card shows a curved-diagonal line. Drop a dot on the moving circle, the game says, and it will generate a bold line, like ink on a page. As the ball (and thus, your dot) rolls, the inked line unfurls; if you put the dot on a different part of the circle, then your inked line may have more curve or angle to it, based on the total motion of the moving, rotating circle. Your object is to recreate this exact curved-diagonal line. If your first ink-drop doesn't do the trick, try again. Each puzzle presents an increasingly complex array of moving and rotating shapes, lines, and dots. You have to watch the repeating patterns and rotations in a particular puzzle to understand where to drop an ink dot and draw the demanded line. At first, you'll have to recreate simple turns, curves, and zig-zags. By the end, you'll be making insane curlicues and rug-like super-patterns.
But even this jaded math wiz-kid couldn't help but drop his jaw, loose his tongue, and bulge his eyes at the first time Engare cracked open its math-rich heart. One early puzzle (shown above) ended with its seemingly simple pattern repeating over and over and over and over. Unlike other puzzles, this pattern kept drawing itself, even after I'd fulfilled a simple line-and-turn pattern. And with each pass of the drawing pattern, driven by a spinning, central circle, Engare drew and filled a new, bright color. This is what the game's creator is trying to shout, I thought. This is his unique, cultural perspective. This looks like the Persian rugs he saw his grandmother weave as a child.
But even this jaded math wiz-kid couldn't help but drop his jaw, loose his tongue, and bulge his eyes at the first time Engare cracked open its math-rich heart. One early puzzle (shown above) ended with its seemingly simple pattern repeating over and over and over and over. Unlike other puzzles, this pattern kept drawing itself, even after I'd fulfilled a simple line-and-turn pattern. And with each pass of the drawing pattern, driven by a spinning, central circle, Engare drew and filled a new, bright color. This is what the game's creator is trying to shout, I thought. This is his unique, cultural perspective. This looks like the Persian rugs he saw his grandmother weave as a child.
How much is "Islamic" and how much is stolen from cultures that they have destroyed? For example "islamic" arches can clearly be seen in pre-islamic Persia. You will fins that most things that Muslims claim to have invented turn out to be "we destroyed this library but copied this bit"
2D games made by millennial minorities? Let's discuss all of those in a stupid app store. Mere hundreds of thousands..
Not if they paid me.
This seems like a way to introduce people to Islamic art, and by extension, to Islam. Rather than a game, it seems like a clever method of proselytizing Islam. Tactics of making Islam appear exciting and appeal to some groups of people are used as recruiting tactics by Islamic terror groups. The safest option is to just say no to Engare and stay far away from anything or anyone associated with it.
It's kind of sad to see what religion has done to a culture that valued science.
Is that Islam is shiite.
An interesting geometrical application -yet what do the first 9 comments focus on? the word "Islamic". As I understand it (and I'm not a Muslim) creation of images is frowned upon (from the Jewish old testament commandment about graven images) so a lot of Islamic art is based on calligraphy and patterns (incl. some geometrically interesting tessellations).
Slashdot used to be a good site for technically minded people - over the past year or two it's degenerated into yet another cesspool of bigotry and hatred - whether it be based on religion, women, gun control, Brexit or US politics.
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That is the only question that matters.
I haven't seen such a fun pattern-based game since some of the early mandelbrot fractal generators. Cool concept and execution.
-a.e.mossberg
Does anyone remember the children's toy Spirograph? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
The game's introduction reminded me of that.
Time for bed, said Zebedee - boing
Models of falling towers, burying pieces but leaving only a little bit exposed so you can texture it by throwing rocks at its surface, and removing any piece of the art you suspect wronged you (unless the art pays you, of course)
Anything that survives the Islamic treatment must be blessed, right?
For Allah is great and PUT YOUR ASS UP IN THE AIR AND PRAY ALREADY!
Charlie Hebdo are experts on Islamic art.
My son asked me to get Geometry Dash for him on his iPad. "Cool," I thought, "he wants a geometry game."
Such a disappointment. The game has no geometry whatsoever, and I have to hear the same annoying pounding electronic music repeated endlessly whenever we drive anywhere.
This is the game that Geometry Dash should have been.
Yep, prior to around the end of WW1, NO ONE really gave two hoots to the middle east. Once oil was discovered, the British, divided up areas of the middle east along what they wanted, not ancient trial boundaries. If the day comes that alternative energy sources finally replace oil, everyone will just go back to not giving two hoots to anyone in the middle east!
I haven't tried the game yet but the description sounds a lot like the Spirograph.
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
The game mostly seems to consist of drawing cycloids. I'm not sure what's supposed to be "Islamic" about that. Sure, Islamic art uses such patterns a lot, but that's mostly because of Islam's religious prohibitions on the depiction of people.
Would this article be on SlashDot if the game had been made by an average white male American?
Maybe people think that his kind is so dumb that we should praise them when they get all creative and do stuff.
Treating people like Pockets Warhol is offensive.
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If you lose, it rapes your 11-year-old sister and cuts off her clit... But other than that, it is a lot of fun - just like Islam.
Given how evil Islam is, is it right or wrong to pirate this game?
Discuss.
Other good puzzle games include:
* Pythagorea, iOS, Android
* Pythagorea 60 iOS, Android
* The Witness
* The Talos Principle
During the peak of growth of Islam, there wasn't an "islamic culture" per se, there was a set of rules, a phylosophy. As it grew (by the means of military or cultural conquests), it *absorbed* and assimilated a lot of what was there before them. Islamic countries became the beacon of development of the world during the dark ages, not because science sprang out in a void,but because they conquered the cultural capitals of the South and East of the Mediterranean. Baghdad, Alexandria, Damascus, Córdoba, and so many other centers of englightenement were *already* important cities when they were conquered. Islam didn't arrive there to destroy their greatness.
This would be cool if it weren't proprietary, closed-source, and only available on Windows and Mac proprietary operating systems. Since it's coming from Iran, the developer probably had to pirate all this proprietary software in the first place. Sad.
All the illegals I know doing yardwork, housekeeping, and carpentry are working, or retained by Republicans and have been for the past 20-30 years.
Maybe you need to zoom your perspective out a bit. Or stop hanging around only rich yuppie assholes who got there by stepping on the backs of others, whether they claim to be liberal, or conservative. Because both sides need the Eyes of Justice shined upon them, or the pitchforks of a prole lynch mob.
Did you know that there's a direct correlation between the decline of Spirograph and the rise in gang activity?
Think about it
Infinite diversity in infinite combination.
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So by labelling it as mere "cultural appropriation" you make killing men who refuse to convert to Islam and making the women into sex slaves the moral equivalent of a white guy selling dream catchers. That way the dhimmis will accept that Muslim rape gangs are no worse than some digits white traders, just as they lap up "100s of incidents of be islamaphobia" being the same as dozens of terror attacks, whereas the islamaphobic incidents are things like writing factual posts about Islam and the your attacks bombing, knifing, shooting, and blowing up innocents
that chip on your shoulder