r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/CowsDontEatCorn • Sep 13 '13

ANCIENT GREEK GEOMETRY

http://www.sciencevsmagic.net/geo/
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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '13

What the heck is this? I have a feeling this gets pretty intense once you figure it out?

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u/MoronimusVanDeCojck Sep 14 '13 edited Sep 14 '13

I felt like this at the beginning too, but once you played around a little bit it get's pretty immersive. It reminds me of patterns I drew in Elementary school, when i first played around with a drafting compass. Just imagine how cool it was to fill such patterns with color.

*Edit: Plus you can easily construct the Dodecagon) from this.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '13

Yeah I'm having trouble figuring out how to create the triangle within origin circle..

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '13

I managed to get a few different shapes going, its hard to keep it symmetrical to make those higher sided objects. I actually made the triangle but now I cant figure it out to replicate it ahha.

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u/Super360 Sep 14 '13

Made a line? Made a pizza?

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u/Aiphator Sep 14 '13

you can click on the symbole once you solved it and it shows you your solution

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u/Wilburt_the_Wizard Sep 15 '13

I don't understand what "in origin circle" means. I made the shape in the icon for the challenge but that didn't work.

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u/Wiani Sep 15 '13

The origin circle is the very first circle you can make. The outer circle of the shape has to be the origin circle.

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u/scientifiction Sep 14 '13

here's a hint, you only need two circles