Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport

Collage of Engineering and Technology– Smart Village

Basic and Applied Sciences Department - Cairo

Mathematics
Lecture#6
Plane Transformations :Frieze
Patterns

Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim Dr. Mohamed Salah

 Frieze Patterns

Frieze pattern is a two-dimensional design that repeats in

one direction.
Frieze 1

The symmetry group 𝐹1 of this pattern has infinitely many

translation symmetries
Some of the vectors of the translation symmetries of 𝑂1 are
indicated in Figure, where the vectors of the translation
symmetries are all integer multiples of one fixed vector. 2
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Frieze 2

The symmetry group of this pattern has reflections

about horizontal line besides translations along all
integer multiples of one fixed vector. This group is
denoted by 𝐹2 .

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Frieze 3 𝑚1 𝑙1 𝑚2 𝑙2 𝑚3 𝑙
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The frieze group 𝐹3 consists of the mandatory

translations, as well as the infinitely many reflections
with respect to the vertical lines 𝑚1 , 𝑙1 , 𝑚2 , 𝑙2 … .

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Frieze 4

The frieze group 𝐹4 consists of translation symmetries

along integer multiples of a fixed vector and we also
have glide reflections.

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Frieze 5

The frieze group 𝐹5 consists of translations, rotations

centered at the points A, B, C, …and through the angle
of 180° are symmetries of this frieze. ,

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Frieze 6

On top of the translations, there are rotations and

reflections. Rotations about the points A, B, C, D, E, F,
… (extending on both sides) through 180° are all
symmetries of the object and so is the reflection with
respect to the horizontal line shown, the frieze group 𝐹6

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Frieze 7

In the frieze group 𝐹7 consists of translations, then the

rotations about certain points through 180°, reflections along
certain vertical lines, and glide reflections in the horizontal
direction.

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 Example 1
Used notation to describe the frieze group 𝐹1 as follows:
{𝑖𝑑, 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑣 , 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠2𝑣 , 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠3𝑣 …
, 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠−𝑣 , 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠−2𝑣 , 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠−3𝑣 , … } . Use the notation for
basic symmetries that we have established earlier to
describe in a similar fashion the frieze groups 𝐹2 and 𝐹3 .

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