http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/Marbling
	Ink Marbling

Marbling refers to painting techniques for creating a stone-like appearance or intricate flowing designs.

Marbling originated in Asia more than 800 years ago and spread to Europe in the 1500s, where it was used for endpapers and book covers.

To the right is a detail from a marbled necktie from Chena River Marblers. Some other sites with marbled images are:

• Examples of Marbling
• Skycraft Designs
• Ann Muir Marbling Ltd
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Marbling/

My pages are about generating marbling designs mathematically.

A paper I wrote with Shufang Lu, Xiaogang Jin, Hanli Zhao, and Xiaoyang Mao has been accepted for publication by IEEE:

Lu, S.; Jaffer, A.; Jin, X.; Zhao, H.; Mao, X.; ,
"Mathematical Marbling,"
Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE , vol.PP, no.99, pp.1, 0
10.1109/MCG.2011.51
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5887299&isnumber=5185484

The Mathematics of Marbling

Serpentine Marbling

Scallops and Clams

Marbling the Torus

Textile Designs

Transfer Effects

Dropping Ink

Pattern Welding

Gallery

Fractals? The Mandelbrot set and related curves display banding, but have only a couple parameters affecting them. These couple parameters change disparate features throughout the image. Although one can affect the drawing, one cannot control it. Also, fractals' self-similarity down to infinitesimal scales is more akin to the Horned Sphere counterexample than to the simply connected homeomorphisms explored here.