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Sunflower Fourteen

Posted on 21 July 2019 by RobertLovesPi

This mathematical illustration of a sunflower is made of fourteen regular heptagons, fourteen irregular pentagons, and a single tetradecagon.

2 thoughts on “Sunflower Fourteen”

Alexandru Popa on 22 July 2019 at 01:02 said:

I didn’t know regular heptagons (yellow) can be arranged in circle without gaps and overlays.

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- RobertLovesPi on 22 July 2019 at 10:10 said:
  
  I didn’t know it would work, either, until I tried it.
  
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