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Polyhedra, tessellations, and more.

Op Art Based On an Elongated Dodecagon

Octagonal Mandala II

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Octagonal Mandala

If the colors are inverted, but the background remains black, this is what it turns into:

Camping In Hexagonal Tents On a Tessellated Plane

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Camping In Hexagonal Tents On a Tessellated Plane

A Gallery of Nine Tessellations Using Hexagons

Pictured above is the most familiar hexagonal tessellation. I’ve found some additional tessellations which use equilateral (but non-equiangular) hexagons, and have radial symmetry. They appear, using various coloring-schemes, below.

A Rhombic Dodecahedron Featuring Rotating Pentagonal Mandalas

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Geometer’s Sketchpad and MS-Paint were both used to make the images on the faces of this polyhedron, and then Stella 4d was used to put it all together and create this rotating image. Stella may be bought, and/or tried for free, at www.software3d.com/Stella.php.