This is a modification of the well-known tessellation of the plane with squares and regular octagons.
Octagonal Spirals
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Category Archives: Art
Soothing Fingers (a painting from 2009)
16″ x 20,” acrylic on canvas.
COVID-19, Interpreted Through the Lens of the Flaming Lips, in Cartoon Form
I did not draw this cartoon. The source for it is Wayne Coyne’s Instagram account (here), and my guess is that he is the cartoonist. If I’m wrong about that, though, please let me know in a comment.
Sixteen {7/2} Star Heptagons
Two of the heptagrams are centered in the middle, while the other fourteen are smaller, and form a ring around the two in the center.
Ten Pentagrams
The ten pentagrams meet at a common vertex in the center.
Fourteen Heptagrams
The fourteen heptagrams, also known as {7/3} star heptagons, meet at a common vertex in the center of the whole diagram. I did the math using Geometer’s Sketchpad, and then colored the result using MS-Paint.
Golden Triangles and Golden Gnomons
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Circles, Triangles, and a Pentagon
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Spectral Icosahedra
Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator has a “put models on vertices” function which I used to build this cluster of 61 icosahedra. If you’d like to try this software for yourself, there is a free trial download available at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
Spectral Cubes
Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator has a “put models on vertices” function which I used to build this cluster of cubes. If you’d like to try this software for yourself, there is a free trial download available at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
