Seventeen Circles

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Seventeen Circles

A Ball of Kites

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A Ball of Kites

“All Is Number”

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“All is number” was a motto of the ancient Pythagorean Society. I thought it would also make a good title for this geometrical design.

Eighteen Stars

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Thirty Stars

Crescents on a Truncated Octahedron

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Crescents on a Truncated Octahedron

Stella 4d (polyhedral manipulation software) was used to place the image in the previous post on each hexagonal face of a truncated octahedron, and the square faces were hidden. The program can do many other things as well — and you may try it for free at http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.

Crescents

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Crescents

Sunrise Dodecahedron

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Sunrise Dodecahedron

Stella 4d (polyhedral manipulation software) was used to place the image in the previous post on each face of a dodecahedron. The program can do many other things as well — and you may try it for free at http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.

Sunrise

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Sunrise

22

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22

This patterns consists of 22 each of two different types of heptagrams, as well as 22 regular heptagons and 22 circles.

Here’s some music for it, by The Flaming Lips: “When Yer Twenty-Two.”

Self-Distraction Attempt

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Self-Distraction Attempt

This is based on a picture I found of the ceiling of the Hampton Court Palace, with variations of my own.

As a self-distraction attempt, however, I wish it were working better.