A Snowflake Made of Circles

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A Snowflake Made of Circles

Orbital Flight

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Orbital Flight

I made this using Stella 4d, software you may try or buy at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

Polyhedral Rainbow Quilt

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Polyhedral Rainbow Quilt

This “quilt pattern” is based on the icosidodecahedron. I made it using Stella 4d, software you may try or buy at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

Stellar Artifact III

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Stellar Artifact III

Software credit: I made this image using Stella 4d, available at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php (free trial download available).

Stellar Artifact II

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Stellar Artifact II

Software credit: I made this image using Stella 4d, available at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php (free trial download available).

Stellar Artifact

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Stellar Artifact

Software credit: I made this image using Stella 4d, available at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php (free trial download available).

A Triangle, The Equilateral Triangles on Its Sides, and the Vertex-Centered Circles for Which Its Sides Are Radii

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A Triangle, The Equilateral Triangles on Its Sides, and The Circl

Fifteen

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Fifteen

A Collection of Nine-Point Circles

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A Collection of Nine-Point Circles

[Note:  if you are not familiar with the nine-point circle already, you may wish to see the next post on this blog, where it is explained in detail.]

The largest circle shown here is the circumscribed circle for a large equilateral triangle, and its nine-point circle is shown as well. Also, each altitude of an equilateral triangle splits it into two 30-60-90 triangles. Since there are three such altitudes, there are six 30-60-90 triangles of this size — and all their nine-point circles are shown as well. These three altitudes, taken together, also split the equilateral triangle into six smaller 30-60-90 triangles, and their nine-point circles are also shown here.

Pentagonal Mandala III

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Pentagonal Mandala III

I suspect that this could be continued outward indefinitely, as a radial and aperiodic tessellation, using only the four polygons you see, repeatedly, here. However, I have no proof of this.