Seven is the number of perfection

@theluthier It's totally okay to make a circle with 7 vertices around each nostril since seven is the number of perfection 👍😀!

  • Ingmar Franz(duerer) replied

    spikeyxxx

    but some of the real power comes from combining 'math tricks' with computer power

    Stunningly beautiful:

  • spikeyxxx replied

    duerer the underlying math of this picture is both simple and extremely complex at the same time ;)

  • Mark Smith(me1958424) replied

    I love fractals!

  • Mark Smith(me1958424) replied

    spikeyxxx does this illustrate the previous idea in a more significant way?


  • spikeyxxx replied

    me1958424 not to me, I still see a spiral and not a circle with a center. Remember those numbered dots that you had to connect in order, to make a drawing of a palm tree, or...I must have made too many of them ;)

    Actually liked the one with the hexagons better.

    You asked about those infinite patterns that grow larger, now I thought of something; there exists something a p-adic numbers (where p is a prime).

    you could also use 10-adic numbers, although they are not commonly used.

    Where rational numbers can go infinitely to the right (after the decimal point), 10-adic (or decadic) numbers can go infinitely to the left.

    Look at this:

    the lines above the digits mean that that part repeats. The right ones are the decadic numbers and they also 'rotate' when you multiply 1/7 by an integer that is not a multiple of 7. And they even consist of the same digits as the decimal ones.

    But for something to be larger, there needs to be some kind of ordering and that is missing in this system, so not exactly what you were looking for, I guess.

    But when talking about circles and their center, I had to think about this, because in a p-adic circle, every point inside that circle is its center (mind-blowing, right?).

  • Mark Smith(me1958424) replied

    spikeyxxx yeah the obvious question becomes how can anything but the center be the center? (no explanation is needed) :D

  • spikeyxxx replied

    me1958424 someone once said that it is a bit like God is in the center and everywhere at the same time ;)