Arabeske is a special kind of vector drawing software, with a limited 
set of shapes but extremely specialised towards complex symmetric 
interlaced drawings, like those traditionnally found in Arabic 
architecture. It is not a texture editor, but rather a pattern 
generator. While not restricted to be used with POV-Ray, it supports 
several export formats, including POV-Ray.

Arabeske is free software (GPL), written in Java for portability 
reasons. Its GUI currently supports English, French and Japanese. After 
14 development versions, the latest release is a beta version, supposed 
to exhibit the last potential bugs.

The Arabeske home page is http://www.wozzeck.net/arabeske/index.html
You can download the software here 
http://www.wozzeck.net/arabeske/ara_devel.html
Finally, a small gallery will tell you more than words what this is 
about: http://www.wozzeck.net/arabeske/gallery/ara-gallery.html

Bug reports and translation offers are welcome.

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