Thamburaj Robinson
Department of Mathematics, Madras Christian College, Chennai 600 059, India
E-mail address: robin.mcc@gmail.com
(Received November 3, 2006; Accepted September 5, 2007)
Keywords: Kolam Patterns, Picture Language, Tessellation
Abstract. The theory of "Formal Languages" had been applied successfully to study the aspect of generating patterns of the kolam folk designs. In this paper a new picture generating method by the use of pasting of tiles is presented. The generating model "Pasting Scheme" and its variant "Extended Pasting Scheme" are shown to generate patterns including kolams of kambi and non-kambi types and tessellations as well.