Maurer Rose was introduced by Peter M. Maurer in his paper titled as A Rose is a Rose….

It happens that Maurer Rose is a very good choice to be as an icon image. Readers can find many materials about Maurer Rose on the website, such as The Coding Train’s vedio, Wikipedia’s introductory page, as well as raw JavaScript code on codepen.io. Actually, the picture below is what I took from CodingTrain with some modification.