Tag Archives: kaleidoscope
Bridges 2018 Stockholm
I have been at the Bridges 2018 conference in Stockholm to present my work on kaleidoscopes. My paper “Kaleidoscopes for Non-Euclidean Space” has more details than this blog and is more coherent. The Bridges Organization, which promotes connections between mathematics … Continue reading
Decorations of semi-regular tessellations
In the last posts I have shown kaleidoscopes that make repeating images in Euclidean, spherical and hyperbolic spaces. They are decorations of regular tilings. But what about semi-regular tilings? Could we decorate them too using mirrors? This would give us … Continue reading
Elliptic kaleidoscopes
In “further hyperbolic kaleidoscopes” I used two straight lines and a circle to make a triangle that defines a kaleidoscope. For k,n and m-fold rotational symmetries at its corners, the sum of its three angles is π(1/k+1/n+1/m). If this sum is … Continue reading
The rotational and mirror symmetry at the center
In the last post I used mirror symmetry at two crossing straight lines and the related inversion at a circle. The mirror symmetries generate a k-rotational symmetry for an angle of intersection of π/k. With these symmetries I map any point … Continue reading
Further hyperbolic kaleidoscopes
In the last post I have used reflections at two parallel lines and a circle to get a Poincaré plane that shows a periodic decoration of hyperbolic space. What happens if the straight lines are not parallel and intersect? Then … Continue reading
Variations on the hyperbolic kaleidoscope
In the last post I have presented a hyperbolic kaleidoscope with two- and three-fold rotational symmetries. Could we have other rotational symmetries? Yes, we simply move the vertical lines! To get an n-fold rotational symmetry the circle has to intersect … Continue reading
A hyperbolic kaleidoscope
In “creating symmetry” Frank Farris shows a wallpaper for hyperbolic space. He uses the Poincaré plane to project the hyperbolic space to our Euclidean drawing surface. The wallpaper then results from mirror symmetries at vertical lines at x=0 and x=0.5 … Continue reading
