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Polyhedra, tessellations, and more.

View From the Third Moon (from 2005)

Posted on 16 May 2023 by RobertLovesPi

Acrylic on canvas, 16″ x 20,” 2005.

My 2023 Birthday Star

Posted on 12 January 2023 by RobertLovesPi

Today is the day I turn 55, so here is a 55-pointed star to mark the ocassion. It’s composed of eleven five-pointed stars, which works because (5)(11) = 55.

Blue Staircase Tessellation

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Uh oh . . . .

Posted on 23 November 2022 by RobertLovesPi

“We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.”

[Visual produced using Stella 4d, which you can try for free here. Quote from Star Trek.]

An Interference Pattern

Posted on 22 November 2022 by RobertLovesPi

I don’t know about you, but this reminds me of a spider (my favorite animal).

Supernovae Bursting Forth From a Pentagonal Icositetrahedron

Posted on 22 November 2022 by RobertLovesPi

I made this with Stella 4d, which you can try for free here.

Tens

Posted on 1 August 2022 by RobertLovesPi

This started with a ring of ten {10/3} star decagons, and then proceeded from there.

Two Mandalas (from 2013)

Posted on 9 June 2022 by RobertLovesPi

I found these on Facebook, and could find no evidence that I’d ever blogged them here — so here they are. The first one is based on the number nine, while the second is based on fifteen.

Starfish III

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A Mandala Centered on a Regular Dodecagon

Posted on 5 April 2022 by RobertLovesPi

In addition to the central dodecagon, this mandala has two rings of squares, one of equilateral triangles, a ring of rhombi, another of regular hexagons, and, finally, a ring of equilateral decagons.