What is this?

Question

It's a geometric pattern/shape... below is the picture, I'd put the picture in the question but html isn't allowed it seems.

http://snipurl.com/16uwt

Answer 1

This is a little tricky one. This is a representation of a fractal first drawn to level 2.

This fractal is drawn like this : Take a circle - outside one, then inscribe into it a regular hexagon. Take each vertex of the hexagon, and connect it through chords to all other vertices. the resultant points of intersection define another smaller circle. repeat the same process as described above with one exception - (the hexagon is now rotated by 90 degrees), you get the base template.

The next step is relatively simple - connect all points on the exterior hexagon to all points that are in the interior hexagon, and while doing this, connect all vertices to all internal vertices that are in the same half as the point itself is. This process will generate the next layer of hexagon, where the same process is to be repeated.

The final step : Take the two extremes of the hexagon on the outermost circle and join them to all interior points of intersection. Do that to all the points on the vertical line.

The figure is generated :-)

It has six axis of symmetry as you would surely observe.

Answer 2

I doubt this shape has a name since it doesn't have vertexes at a regular spacing. A dodecahedron is a twelve-sided shape, with the distance of the line between each face is of the same Length (the do make dice in this shape, I have seen them). You shape is just too irregular, unless you are constructing the shape in warped space or with extra dimensions.

If you were to take each line coming from the over 30 vertexes as an edge between two faces then your shape is an irregular one and a 3D image. If you want at 2D image then I would say you are trying to duplicate a Spirograph with straight lines and have created a piece of art, but not any specific shape.

Answer 3

it just looks like a hexagon inscriibed in a circle and a triangle inscribed in that hexagon and a rectangle inscribed in that triangle...and another hexagon and some stray lines. I doubt it has a specific name since there are so many geometric shapes involved.

Answer 4

I see three monkeys playing dominos, with a horse chasing Cylons in the background.

Answer 5

circle -> hexagon -> a star with six points and repeat

Answer 6

chaotic motion. Particle physics

Answer 7

ooops....i am confused. by the way, why do you want to know this??