Thirteen Circles

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Golden Star

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Rings of Pentagons

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Eight Mandalas in Orbit

The mandalas on the eight hexagonal faces of this truncated octahedron were first seen in the blog-post immediately before this one. The six square faces have been hidden, creating holes in their places.

I used Geometer’s Sketchpad and MS-Paint to make this pattern, based on a ring of twenty-two hendecagons. The work of projecting this image onto a polyhedron, as well as making this rotating .gif image, was performed using another program, Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator. If you’d like to try Stella for yourself, there’s a free trial download available at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

Meditations Upon a Ring of Hendecagons

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Four, Six, Nine, and Eighteen

This mathematical illustration includes two shapes of rhombi (orange and green), isosceles trapezoids (blue), regular hexagons (yellow), regular enneagons (red), and a single regular octadecagon (violet).

Sunflower Fourteen

This mathematical illustration of a sunflower is made of fourteen regular heptagons, fourteen irregular pentagons, and a single tetradecagon.

A Golden Tessellation of Quadrilaterals

In this tessellation, golden rectangles are shown in yellow. The orange darts are each made of two golden gnomons, joined at a leg — while the blue rhombi are each made of two golden triangles, sharing a base.

A Geometrical Exploration of the Number Fourteen

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Radial Five

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