Crystal Stamp

proofmathisbeautiful:

A third work by Chaim Goodman-Straus

“Morning Glories 4₁*:2”

These morning glories are arranged in space, in one of the possible 230 discrete spatial symmetries; the figure is from the forthcoming “The Symmetries of Things” coauthored with John H. Conway and Heidi Burgiel.his illustrates the discrete group 32x, in the Conway-Thurston orbifold notation; the image was created from a scan of the artist’s foot, then manipulated within Mathematica, for the forthcoming book “The Symmetries of Things”, coauthored with John H. Conway and Heidi Burgiel.