2 balloon decorative truncated tetrahedron

I've been playing around with a few balloon patterns that have odd degree vertices.  Lately, I revisited the doubling up the edges approach.  Here's my latest pattern.  The notation is a bit cryptic but. The pink strokes indicate where a connection has to be made. The big numbers mean  big bubbles and the small numbers mean 1 inch bubbles.

Probably this would make an OK flower vase--it has three points of contact which is good for balance. This is a view from the top. I'll probably make a youtube vid on this.

more flowers

Here's a simple pattern made with a 3 pentagon 2 square spacers.  Take away the spacers and you end up with a very dull triangular grid.  Since there is so much white space the bright colours seem to work without being over powering.

another bug

This pattern is a bit of a revisit of X bug from Jan 2008. I like the chevrons and the gear like aspect. Does seem a bit spread out though.  I'll play some more to see if there is something worth looking at.

Squared Triangle...

I liked this quote.


“Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.” 
― Isaac Asimov


I tried to come up with a polygon joke but this is the best I could come up with.  I guess I should stick with dull arguments.



It's not any funnier going the other way...

updated PentTree

After the starfish design, I revisited the PentTree. The first thing I noticed was that it didn't make all the nice loops--connected rings of polygons. So I fixed that: check above the base, you should see eight pentagons that fit together making a loop.  Then I tweaked the pattern so it was a little better balanced. For the geeks, here's the code:

splitL{    right    scale 0.71925    right    ifsmall 0.002 { } {    sides 5    ifon none {       paint green       left       create splitL       right       create splitR    } { }    } }

splitR{    scale 0.71925    ifsmall 0.002 {} {    sides 5    ifon none {       paint olive       create splitR       left       create splitL    } { }   } }

StarFish

This is a fun image that has a lot of pentagons and isosceles triangles. This pattern has neighbouring pentagons having the ratio of the .618 (the golden ratio). I'll do some more exploring to see if I can find another interesting pattern.

I think this may overly complicate the pattern but here is another.  Maybe this is more like an amoeba. It was a little tricky to make that inner spiral fit but it does.

 

Koch snowflake variant

This one was fun to make. I wanted a cool snowflake to be a backdrop for a presentation (http://prezi.com/jie04ey9bhjr/zulo/) that I was making but I couldn't find one that I liked.  So I figured that I would make one with PolygonR&D.  After som playing around, I ended up with this one that I later enhanced with some photoshop (gimp actually).
Let me know what you think.