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This must be well-known, but I only discovered the construction this afternoon.

The sides of the edge pentagons are 1/3 the side of the big ones; the radius of the discs in the corners is arbitrary and picked to look nice. Probably the larger discs should have calligraphic decorations in them.

Date: 2005-03-24 12:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] j4.livejournal.com
Ow, me head!

Is it just me or do they look like they're moving?

Date: 2005-03-24 12:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fivemack.livejournal.com
They do seem to move a bit when you're not looking at them, particularly the pink spots. Unintentional, I assure you.

I think fractal decoration is probably a mistake, I should only have taken the tiles two levels of recursion down (for where's the point in features smaller than pixels), and put a disc rather than the little pentagon in the centre.

But even the famous blue-and-yellow whirling snakes of insanity stop whirling if you look at them straight-on.

Date: 2005-03-24 12:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] del-c.livejournal.com
Interestingly, for the three regular polygons you can do this with at all (square, pentagon, and hexagon), the inside polygons are all 1/3 the size of the outside ones, and have to be.

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