Happy Diwali everyone!_We had a go at m

Tim Hutton - 2015-11-10 17:01:27+0000 - Updated: 2015-11-10 17:01:27+0000

Happy Diwali everyone!
We had a go at making a rangoli of a hyperbolic tessellation on the Poincaré disk - here {5,4}, the chessboard you'd get if you decided to use pentagons instead of squares. Make your own!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangoli
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order-4_pentagonal_tiling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diwali

Happy Diwali everyone! We had a go at making a rangoli of a hyperbolic tessellation on the Poincaré disk - here {5,4}, the chessboard you'd get if you decided to use pentagons instead of squares. Make your own! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangoli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order-4_pentagonal_tiling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diwali

Shared with: Public, Andrea Hawksley

+1'd by: Richard Botting, Whitt Whitton, David Tweed, Matt McIrvin, Gerard Westendorp, John Baez, Shishir Pandey, Maryam Vahid, Torolf Sauermann, Chris Greene, Roice Nelson, Henry Segerman, george oloo, Ankur Handa, Luke Sciarappa, Rama Kunapuli, Refurio Anachro, Matin Azad, Theron Hitchman

Roice Nelson - 2015-11-10 19:19:37+0000

And for some details about how to play chess on that {5,4}, see +Andrea Hawksley's blog!

http://blog.andreahawksley.com/non-euclidean-chess-part-2/

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