links
- On the website of the School of Islamic Geometric Design you can find lots of materials on the construction of muqarnas and links to other sites.
- Eric Broug made a nice film on making muqarnas out of cardboard.
- Thé database of muqarnas with many 2D schemes is the website of Shiro Takahashi.
- Very nice is how Henk Hietbrink illustrates on his website how in workshops he works with a 3D printer, cut-out shapes and a STL viewer to show 3D animations in analysing many examples of muqarnas.
Getty Publications put the book The Topkapi Scroll - Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture of Gülrü Necipoglu online. You can legally download it at Getty Publications. Besides high quality reproductions of thé historical written source of islamic patterns and muqarnas, you get a standard work that situates the scroll into its historical-cultural-scientifical context.
Who's looking for supplementary mathematical-scientifical information surely will find what he's looking for in some publications, that you can find online as pdf-documents.
- Don't the dissertation of Silvia Harmsen: Algorithmic Computer Reconstructions of Stalactite Vaults - Muqarnas - in Islamic Architecture.
- Very interesting too is the work of Yvonne Dold-Samplonius: Practical Arabic Mathematics: Measuring the Muqarnas by al-Kashi