Zakhraf generates authentic Islamic geometric patterns to museum mathematical standard. Design in the browser. Export as SVG, seamless repeat tile or CSS pattern. For residential and hospitality spaces that ask more of a pattern than a stock print.
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Every rosette, girih strap and zellige face this tool draws comes from the same mathematics as the Alhambra and the Al-Attarine Madrasa: exact irrationals, the Hankin polygon-in-contact construction, and the crystallographic restriction that permits six, eight, ten and twelve-fold symmetry. Nothing is generated. Everything is derived.
The polygons-in-contact method the tradition is built on, implemented exactly.
Open formats your fabricator and studio already use. Nothing proprietary.
Every piece measured in millimetres against your CNC bit before export.
The studio runs entirely in the browser. No account required to begin. No account required to export a watermarked PNG.
Choose your symmetry: 6, 8, 10 or 12-fold. Set harmonic depth, add polychrome zellige colouring, thicken to ribbon strapwork. Every constant derived analytically, no magic numbers.
See it live at any zoom. Canvas and export use identical geometry, so what appears on screen is exactly what prints. Preview against a wall or fabric mock-up before you commit.
SVG at screen size or 2400 px print-ready. Seam-verified repeat tile for fabric, wallpaper and product printing. CSS pattern for websites. All under a commercial licence.
Every strap tip in a Zakhraf pattern sits at the exact analytic intersection of construction lines. Every harmonic depth is a closed-form irrational (tan π/6, √2 − 1, 1/φ², 2 − √3). The engine implements Hankin's polygons-in-contact method with a symmetric ray-growth clipper: overlap is impossible by construction, and strapwork continuity across tile edges is automatic.
This matters because interior work at scale needs geometry that survives being blown up to a three-metre wallpaper drop. Patterns that look pleasant at thumbnail size and fall apart at print size are the industry's default. Zakhraf's default is the opposite.
Zakhraf runs free forever for exploration and personal use. Creator unlocks the geometries and export formats needed to put a pattern onto a product.
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