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Solar Eclipses and Mandalas On a Great Rhombcuboctahedron

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Solar Eclipses and Mandalas On a Great Rhombcuboctahedron

Credit where credit is due:

I found the eclipse picture with a Google-search.

The mandalas are the one in the previous post here (“Seventeen Circles”). I made it using Geometer’s Sketchpad and MS-Paint.

I used software called Stella 4d to assemble this onto the chosen polyhedron, and make the animated .gif file you see here. This software is available at http://www.software3d.com/stella.php, with a free trial download available.

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.