This pattern could be continued, indefinitely, into space.
Here is a second view, in rainbow color mode, and with all the squares hidden.
[These images were created with Stella 4d, software you may buy — or try for free — right here.]
I don’t usually post the work of others here, but, since I am now using this as my blog’s header-image (in slightly altered form), it seemed appropriate to make an exception for this cartoon, in its original format. I didn’t know that the cartoonists at Cyanide and Happiness monitored my life, but, clearly, that guy in the blue shirt is me!
Media used: acrylic on canvas.
Although I have not yet seen it in person, this painting is based on images I have seen of Delicate Arch, in Utah’s Arches National Park.
Media used: acrylic on canvas.
I started this blog in July of 2012, so the birthday stars I made in January 2012 (when I turned 44) and January 2011 (when I turned 43) did not appear here in those years. I found them, though, and will post them now.
The first two are different colorings of a 44-pointed star, from January 12, 2012, the day I turned 44:
These three are different color-versions of 43-pointed stars, from a year earlier — January 12, 2011:
I turn 48 today, so please visit the post right before this one, if you’d like to see this year’s birthday stars. =)
This year, I’m continuing my personal tradition of making stars on my birthday with numbers of points which increase each year. I’ve done this for years, and it’s based on a game I started when I turned three, and claimed the three stars of Orion’s belt as my personal property, on the grounds that they were obviously put in the sky for my benefit. Most recently, a year ago, when I turned 47, I posted a 47-pointed star on this blog.
I’m turning 48 today, so here are a couple of different colorings of 48-pointed stars containing segments through the center, {6/2} compound-triangle stars, and {8/3) star octagons, made possible by the fact that 48 = (6)(8).
Of course, I am turning 48 on my 49th birthday (and if that makes no sense to you, here’s the explanation), so this year I also made 49-pointed stars. They are based on 49 being the square of seven, and so contain seven each of the two types of star heptagram possible, in two different colors. For this star, also, I made two versions.
Every now and then, I find something I created some years ago, but never blogged here. This is another such piece, which I made in 2013 (using Geometer’s Sketchpad and MS-Paint), but did not name until today.
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