16″ x 20,” acrylic on canvas.
Soothing Fingers (a painting from 2009)
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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.
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.
Spectral Dodecahedra
Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator has a “put models on vertices” function which I used to build this cluster of 101 dodecahedra. 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 Tetrahedra
Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator has a “put models on vertices” function which I used to build this complex of tetrahedra. If you’d like to try this software for yourself, there is a free trial version available at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
Eyes
This collection of curves was built around a tessellation of the plane using regular hexagons. To make the second version, I inverted the colors, except for the black circles and arcs.
