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Four-Color Tessellation

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Four-Color Tessellation

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24 April 2013 by RobertLovesPi
Posted in Mathematics Tagged geometry, Mathematics, tessellation Leave a reply

Tessellation Featuring Squares, Triangles, and Dodecagons

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Tessellation Featuring Squares, Triangles, and Decagons

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24 April 2013 by RobertLovesPi
Posted in Mathematics Tagged geometry, Mathematics, tessellation 2 Replies

Radial Tessellation of the Plane Using Kites

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Radial Tessellation of the Plane Using Kites

The kites to use have side lengths in a ratio of one to the square root of three, and angle measures of 60, 90, 120, and 90 degrees.

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22 April 2013 by RobertLovesPi
Posted in Mathematics Tagged geometry, kite, kites, Mathematics, pattern, tessellation, tiling Leave a reply

Puckered Ring of Ten Great Rhombicosidodecahedra

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Puckered Ring of Ten Great Rhombicosidodecahedra

Created using software here: http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.

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20 April 2013 by RobertLovesPi
Posted in Mathematics Tagged geometry, great rhombicosidodecahedron, Mathematics, polyhedra, polyhedron Leave a reply

A Ball of Mica in Ultraviolet

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A Ball of Mica in Ultraviolet
(Software credit: see http://www.software3d.com/stella.php)

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19 April 2013 by RobertLovesPi
Posted in Art Tagged Art, geometrical art Leave a reply

Icosahedral Cluster of Snub Dodecahedra

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Icosahedral Cluster of Snub Dodecahedra

http://www.software3d.com/stella,php — that’s the place to go to try the software used to make this

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19 April 2013 by RobertLovesPi
Posted in Mathematics Tagged geometry, icosahedron, Mathematics, polyhedra, polyhedron, snub dodecahedron Leave a reply

Octahedral Nulloid

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Octahedral Nulloid

A nulloid is a polyhedron with zero volume.

See http://www.software3d.com/stella.php for the software used to produce this image.

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19 April 2013 by RobertLovesPi
Posted in Mathematics Tagged geometry, Mathematics, nulloid, polyhedra, polyhedron Leave a reply

Faceted Icosahedron with Tetrahedral Symmetry

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Faceted Icosahedron with Tetrahedral Symmetry

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19 April 2013 by RobertLovesPi
Posted in Mathematics Tagged geometry, Mathematics, polyhedra, polyhedron Leave a reply

Go Fly Sixty Kites!

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Go Fly Sixty Kites!

Because just about anyone can fly one kite at a time….

(Software credit: see http://www.software3d.com/stella.php)

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19 April 2013 by RobertLovesPi
Posted in Art Tagged Art, geometrical art, geometry, go fly a kite, kite, kites Leave a reply

Faceted Rhombic Triacontahedron

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Faceted Rhombic Triacontahedron

Want to try making these yourself? Just pop over to http://www.software3d.com/stella.php — there’s a free trial download available.

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19 April 2013 by RobertLovesPi
Posted in Mathematics Tagged geometry, Mathematics, polyhedra, polyhedron Leave a reply

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