I found these on Facebook, and could find no evidence that I’d ever blogged them here — so here they are. The first one is based on the number nine, while the second is based on fifteen.
Two Mandalas (from 2013)
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A Mandala Centered on a Regular Dodecagon
In addition to the central dodecagon, this mandala has two rings of squares, one of equilateral triangles, a ring of rhombi, another of regular hexagons, and, finally, a ring of equilateral decagons.
An Enneagon-Centered Mandala
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Rainbow Enneagonal Mandala (from 2010)
I just found this on Facebook. I made it two years before starting this blog.
Mandala 18
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Two Pentadecagonal Mandalas
A Dodecahedron, with Mandalas
The mandala used here first appeared in this blog-post. I then used Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator to put those images on the faces of a dodecahedron. If you’d like to try this program yourself, you can do so, for free, at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
Mandala Featuring Regular Heptagons and a Regular Tetradecagon, with Convex Pentagons and Isosceles Trapezoids
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A Rhombic Dodecahedron Decorated with Golden Mandalas
To make this, I used Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator to take the image I blogged here, and then project it onto the faces of a rhombic dodecahedron. Next, I put that polyhedron into motion for the .gif shown below.
If you’d like to give Stella a free try, the site to visit is http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.
Golden Mandala
This decagonal mandala is split into fifty golden triangles (shown in yellow), and forty golden gnomons (shown in orange).
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