251K views · 223 reactions | Check out this workshop that teaches its attendees how to create Islamic geometric art  | NowThis | Facebook

12M views · 29K reactions | In celebration of Ramadan, brush up on the beautiful and complex geometry of Islamic design --and learn how to draw a few of these patterns yourself! Ramadan Mubarak! | TED-Ed | Facebook

Question is do you ever use a protractor for Islamic Geometric Patterns? There's an interesting and perhaps purist culture (which I of course fully embrace!) where we love a compass and straight edge construction, but a protractor is just another tool, like so many other tools that can help us draw and create perfectly precise patterns. What do you think? p.s. this thought was born from approximate enneagon constructions in my Patreon Zoom. We discussed this little matter, especially as we were