Ripples

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Ripples

An interference pattern / op art piece created with Geometer’s Sketchpad and MS-Paint.

The 600-Cell

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6-Ex, 600-cell, Hexacosichoron

This regular 4-d polytope is made of 600 tetrahedral unit cells. It is rotating in hyperspace, continually changing the three-dimensional “slice” of it which you can see. The software used to make this image may be purchased, or tried for free, at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

Butterfly

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Butterfly

This is actually the mathematical dual of the previous post, but it reminds me of a butterfly, so I’m choosing to view it as closer to art than to mathematics.

Created with software available as a free trial download at http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.

Triacontahedral Tube

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Triacontahedral Tube

The software used to make this is available as a free trial download at http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.

Ring of Ten Rhombic Triacontahedra

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Ring of Ten Rhombic Triacontahedra

I made this .gif with Stella 4d, software available as a free trial download at http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.

Ring of Ten Rhombicosidodecahedra

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Ring of Ten Rhombicosidodecahedra

If oriented just right, ten rhombicosidodecahedra can be stuck together to form a regular decagonal ring.

You may try the software I used to make this, as a free trial download, at http://www.software3d.com/stella.php.

An Icosahedral Cluster of Truncated Icosahedra

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An Icosahedral Cluster of Truncated Icosahedra

Software credit: http://www.software3d.com/stella.php

Ring of Seven Snub Cubes

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Augmented Snub Cube

Seven snub cubes almost make a perfect ring. There’s a small region of overlap between two of them which precludes perfection in this case. If you click on the image, it will rotate, and you’ll be able to spot this overlap-region more easily.

Software credit: see http://www.software3d.com/stella.php

Fifth Wheel

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Fifth Wheel

32 Circles

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56 Circles