Preserving the heritage of Central Sulawesi batik motif using fractal geometry concept

Abstract

The heritage of Central Sulawesi batik have to be prevented in order to maintain Indonesian culture. Nowadays, available batik motif of Central Sulawesi needs to be explored to promote its cultural wealth. Using the main concept of fractal geometry, repetition and similarity, some motifs are designed in this research. The concepts make the motifs are displayed regularly. The base of the design is the diversity of the Central Sulawesi that located in Wallacea zone. This principal base makes the uniqueness of the motifs design. The generated motifs are varied by some parameters values that represent some mathematical operation and simulated by jbatik software. The operations are translation, rotation, dilatation, and reflection. This research results some motifes that are namely the waving cactus bloom, cesara, moringa chem, eboni herb, sigi fiesta, and harmony nature. The other advantage of the result is some motifs are also could be applicated as woven motif, the other Indonesian heritage clothing.