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digitallineart currently draws from 700+ forms. Every work on the wall comes from one of them: a rule for placing shapes, followed by chance in their number, position, size and colour. Here are all of them, grouped, each with its newest work still on view — 4,979 works hang on the wall right now. Each one stays for 30 days, then it leaves for good.

Basic shapes 32 forms

  • What the Clear Bay Around Inscribing — 80 hexagons

    Hexagons

    Regular six-sided polygons, the shape of honeycomb cells, drawn at random sizes and angles.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Blaze circa Floating Levitating — 66 arrows

    Arrows

    Arrows with a straight shaft and a triangular head, pointing in random directions, some with a head at both ends.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • When the Lasting Bog nearby Dividing — 8 triangles

    Triangles

    Three-sided polygons of random size and rotation, the simplest closed shape straight lines can make.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Plain Acre round Collecting — 4 lines

    Lines

    Straight lines of varying length, angle and stroke width, each drawn in a colour of its own.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Carbon of Coarse past Dwindling — 15 seven-point stars

    Seven-Point Stars

    Seven-pointed star outlines with deep notches, drawn in varying sizes and random rotations.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Acre past Fathomed Measuring — 93 pentagons

    Pentagons

    Regular five-sided polygons in varying sizes and rotations, outlined in thin coloured strokes.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Even Acre down Circling — 150 crescents

    Crescents

    Crescent moons cut from two overlapping circles, in varying widths and orientations.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • What the Full-bodied Alcove via Sharing — 90 dodecagons

    Dodecagons

    Regular twelve-sided polygons, close to circles but still clearly made of straight edges.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • When Stable Bluff toward Melting — 18 triangle variants

    Triangle Variants

    Isosceles and right-angled triangles in random sizes and rotations, mixed on one canvas.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Alcove Since Forthcoming Winding — 94 parallelograms

    Parallelograms

    Slanted four-sided shapes with two pairs of parallel sides, sheared to random angles.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • What the Cascade unto Blooming Flourishing — 59 rectangles

    Rectangles

    Rectangles of random proportions and rotation, layered so that their outlines cross and overlap.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Dim Burial up the Gnawing — 5 hendecagons

    Hendecagons

    Regular eleven-sided polygons, a figure that cannot be constructed with compass and straightedge alone.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Candle beside Rarefied Limning — 146 teardrops

    Teardrops

    Teardrop outlines with one round end and one pointed tip, turned in every direction.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • When Lingering Alcove atop Cooling — 117 decagons

    Decagons

    Regular ten-sided polygons, outlined at random sizes and angles across the whole canvas.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • Graceful Alabaster above Streaming — 18 rhombuses

    Rhombuses

    Four equal sides in a slanted diamond, drawn at random sizes, angles and proportions.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Dusty Bay circa Sounding — 97 arcs

    Arcs

    Open segments of circles, cut at random start and end angles, that curve without ever closing.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Sober Bluff above Knotting — 62 eight-point stars

    Eight-Point Stars

    Eight-pointed star outlines with deep notches, drawn in varying sizes and random rotations.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Sunny Breath within the Dispelling — 44 circles

    Circles

    Circle outlines in many sizes, either single rings or sets of nested concentric circles, placed at random.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Border of Layered Weaving — 23 hearts

    Hearts

    Nested heart outlines drawn from the classic parametric heart curve, in varying sizes with a slight tilt.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Gentle Acre until Layering — 78 rounded rectangles

    Rounded Rectangles

    Rectangles with rounded corners, in random proportions, corner radii and rotations.

    All 7 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When Distant Acre betwixt Rolling — 35 five-point stars

    Five-Point Stars

    Five-pointed star outlines with deep notches, drawn in varying sizes and random rotations.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Seasoned Bay throughout the Bridging — 55 diamonds

    Diamonds

    Diamonds made from squares turned by 45 degrees, outlined in random sizes.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When Leisurely Bay Around Abiding — 14 nonagons

    Nonagons

    Regular nine-sided polygons whose many corners already start to round them towards a circle.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When Thoughtful Acre into Crafting — 109 squares

    Squares

    Regular four-sided polygons, turned to random angles and scattered across the canvas in many sizes.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What the Aurora beyond Wide Freshening — 138 leaves

    Leaves

    Simple leaf outlines, pointed at both ends, scattered at random sizes and angles.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Blaze Inside Harmonious Waltzing — 14 octagons

    Octagons

    Regular eight-sided polygons, familiar from stop signs, in varying sizes and rotations.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What Joyful Beam Since Perfuming — 25 heptagons

    Heptagons

    Regular seven-sided polygons, each turned to its own angle and drawn in its own colour.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Dainty Breath near Illumining — 111 ellipses

    Ellipses

    Ellipses of random width, height and tilt, from near-circles to long and thin ovals.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When the Dusky Cavern nearby Blackening — 32 trapeziums

    Trapeziums

    Four-sided shapes with one pair of parallel sides, drawn in varying proportions, sizes and rotations.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Time-honored Atoll Inside Abetting — 31 six-point stars

    Six-Point Stars

    Six-pointed star outlines with deep notches, drawn in varying sizes and random rotations.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Embittered Boulder amid Tarnishing — 82 crosses

    Crosses

    Plus-shaped crosses of two equal bars meeting at their midpoints, varied in size and stroke width.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 4 December

  • What the Anchored Border betwixt Rooting — 36 deltoids

    Deltoids

    Kite-shaped quadrilaterals with two pairs of equal adjacent sides, in random sizes and rotations.

    All 7 on viewNewest leaves 4 December

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Geometry 42 forms

  • The Bloom until White Flecking — 9 circle inversions

    Circle Inversions

    Circle Inversions, a square grid reflected in a circle, turning its lines into two pencils of circles touching centrally.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Brook unto Abiding Abetting — 46 compass constructions

    Compass Constructions

    Compass constructions, regular polygons and vesica figures drawn with every auxiliary circle, arc and construction line.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Joyful Aurora within Heightening — Triangle Grid, 7 elements

    Triangle Grid

    A lattice of equilateral triangles, the simplest regular tiling of the plane with three-sided cells.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Enchanting Alabaster despite Flourishing — 112 kepler's cosmos

    Kepler's Cosmos

    Kepler's Cosmos, platonic solids nested inside one another, each inscribed in a sphere that is itself the next solid's circumsphere.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Nimble Blaze down Beckoning — 42 pythagorean proofs

    Pythagorean Proofs

    Proof figures of the Pythagorean theorem: squares on the sides, Bhaskara's square, rearrangement squares and Garfield's trapezoid.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • When Ragged Burial betwixt Strangling — Vesica Piscis, 147 elements

    Vesica Piscis

    Vesica piscis, two equal circles each passing through the other's centre, extended level by level into a flower of circles.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • What the Atoll over Rustic Bordering — 87 quasicrystal waves

    Quasicrystal Waves

    Quasicrystal waves, contour lines of superposed plane waves with five-, seven- or eightfold symmetry.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • When Heavy Cave unto Oppressing — 100 snub tilings

    Snub Tilings

    Snub tilings, bevelled tessellations of triangles, squares and hexagons with twisted cells.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • The Border of Lasting off Rooting — 75 interlocking lines

    Interlocking Lines

    Pairs of wavy lines in opposite phase that cross each other repeatedly, like the strands of a braid.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • What the Autumnal Bluff into Reaching — 25 hyperbolic tilings

    Hyperbolic Tilings

    Geodesic arcs of the Poincaré disc, circular arcs meeting the rim at right angles, in the manner of hyperbolic tilings.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Arch of Faithful among Buffering — 50 Metatron cubes

    Metatron Cubes

    Metatron's Cube, thirteen circles joined by straight lines, a figure from sacred geometry.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Time-honored Bay from Layering — 24 tangrams

    Tangrams

    Tangram figures, the seven classic pieces arranged edge to edge into one compact silhouette.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • When the Flickering Blossom unto Aerating — 72 steiner chains

    Steiner Chains

    Steiner chain, a ring of mutually tangent circles squeezed between two non-concentric circles that closes on itself.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Cavern beside Sightless Stifling — Mesh, 17 elements

    Mesh

    Random networks of points joined by straight lines, from sparse webs to dense tangles.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • Frugal Atoll over the Calming — 108 pascal lines

    Pascal Lines

    Pascal line, a hexagon inscribed in a conic whose opposite sides meet on one straight line.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • Loamy Brook with the Anchoring — 53 spidrons

    Spidrons

    Spidrons, spiralling chains of alternating isosceles and equilateral triangles nested in rings of a regular polygon.

    All 7 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • What the Poised Atoll betwixt Rounding — 89 spirolaterals

    Spirolaterals

    Spirolaterals, turtle paths of repeated segment lengths and fixed turns that close into symmetric figures.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • When Forthcoming Acre round Bordering — 141 morley triangles

    Morley Triangles

    Morley triangle, the angle trisectors of any triangle meet in the vertices of an equilateral triangle.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • What the Earthen Alcove near Changing — Flower of Life, 34 elements

    Flower of Life

    Overlapping circles of equal size arranged in a sixfold pattern, the ancient Flower of Life figure.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • What the Ash betwixt Plaintive Clouding — 32 poncelet porisms

    Poncelet Porisms

    Poncelet Porisms, polygons closing between two circles; every starting point on the outer circle yields another such polygon.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • Bronzed Brook underneath the Engraving — 100 apollonius circles

    Apollonius Circles

    Apollonius Circles, two orthogonal families of circles around two foci: circles of constant distance ratio and circles through both.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What the Arch atop Hewn Aging — Hexagrid, 37 elements

    Hexagrid

    A hexagonal patch of regular honeycomb cells packed edge to edge around a central cell.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What Easygoing Alcove underneath Bridging — 125 Voronoi diagrams

    Voronoi Diagrams

    Voronoi diagrams, which divide a region into cells around random seed points, each cell nearest its own seed.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Forbearing Bog in the Embedding — 5 triangle centers

    Triangle Centers

    Triangle centers, circumcircle, incircle, nine-point circle and Euler line of a triangle with its centers marked.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Steady-handed Arch unto Lasting — 148 superellipses

    Superellipses

    Superellipses, shapes between ellipse and rectangle set by a single exponent, as in Piet Hein's designs.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Arch of Intact near Winding — Sunburst, 122 elements

    Sunburst

    Straight rays fanning out from a common centre, alternating between long and short, like a stylised sun.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Evenhanded Border until the Knitting — Delaunay Triangulation, 25 elements

    Delaunay Triangulation

    Delaunay triangulations, joining random points into triangles so that no point lies inside any circumcircle.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What Full-bodied Canyon down Harboring — 75 grids

    Grids

    Square grids of horizontal and vertical lines that divide a square area into equal cells.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When Estranged Burial amid Rotting — 54 reuleaux shapes

    Reuleaux Shapes

    Reuleaux shapes, constant-width curves from circular arcs, shown as rotors in a square, nested swirls and constructions.

    All 7 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What Balanced Acre from Reckoning — 76 star polygons

    Star Polygons

    Star polygons such as {7/3}, drawn by joining every k-th corner of a regular polygon.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When the Clear Alcove along Guarding — 63 kaleidoscopes

    Kaleidoscopes

    Kaleidoscopic figures in which one random zigzag line is rotated and mirrored around a centre.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When Fertile Bay unto Tilling — 100 conformal grids

    Conformal Grids

    Conformal Grids, a square grid mapped by z squared, the complex exponential or a Moebius map, crossing at right angles.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Kindly Border without Layering — String Art, 25 elements

    String Art

    String art, straight threads stretched between points on a frame whose crossings form curves.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Oaken Acre until the Earning — 8 interlocking circles

    Interlocking Circles

    Groups of equal circle outlines spaced evenly around a common centre, overlapping like linked rings.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What Mellow Canyon until Reckoning — 125 dudeney dissections

    Dudeney Dissections

    Dudeney's hinged dissection: an equilateral triangle cut into four pieces that swing on hinges into a square.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Sedate Arch between the Moving — 2 pappus chains

    Pappus Chains

    Pappus chain, circles packed into an arbelos, each tangent to the two outer arcs and the previous circle.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What the Frank Bluff above Clearing — Kagome Lattice, 6 elements

    Kagome Lattice

    The kagome lattice, a weave of triangles and hexagons named after a traditional Japanese basket pattern.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What Sundrenched Breath alongside Sprouting — 22 lunes of hippocrates

    Lunes of Hippocrates

    Lunes of Hippocrates, crescents between semicircles on a right triangle's sides and its circumscribed circle, optionally hatched.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 4 December

  • Bessel Drums

    Bessel drums, nodal lines of a circular membrane showing rings and diameters of its vibration modes.

    None on view right now

  • Gaussian Primes

    Gaussian primes, the prime points of the complex integer plane drawn as circles with connecting lines.

    None on view right now

  • Hyperbolic Geodesics

    Hyperbolic geodesics, circular arcs in the Poincaré disk that meet the boundary at right angles.

    None on view right now

  • Stereographic Circles

    Stereographic circles, the families of circles produced by projecting a sphere's latitude and longitude lines onto a plane.

    None on view right now

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Curves 66 forms

  • When the Slow Brook nearby Bridging — 131 Cassini ovals

    Cassini Ovals

    Cassini ovals, curves on which the product of the distances to two fixed points stays constant.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • What Steady Acre amidst Damming — 134 astroids

    Astroids

    Astroids, four-cusped star curves traced inside a circle four times the size of the rolling one.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • When Warm-hued Alcove near Rounding — Witch of Agnesi, 103 elements

    Witch of Agnesi

    The witch of Agnesi, a bell-shaped curve named after the mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • When Dejected Abyss betwixt Dimming — 130 Devil's curves

    Devil's Curves

    Devil's curves, quartic curves whose crossing loops and arcs change shape with a single parameter.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Russet Bog circa Brewing — 125 waves

    Waves

    Sine waves running across the canvas, varied in amplitude, wavelength and phase.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Olive Brook in the Enduring — 82 talbot curves

    Talbot Curves

    Talbot's curves, bell-shaped curves with a small loop, traced as the pedal curve of an ellipse.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • What the Brook unto Old-fashioned Knitting — 113 tractrices

    Tractrices

    Tractrices, the paths of a weight dragged along a line by a fixed-length string.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Settled Alcove round Spreading — 112 pursuit curves

    Pursuit Curves

    Pursuit curves, bugs at polygon corners chasing each other inward, leaving whirls of nested, turning polygons or spiral tracks.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Frolicsome Brilliance down Breezing — 42 sine lattices

    Sine Lattices

    Sine lattices, crossing sine waves with shifting phase that weave a rippling net.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • The Barren Burial under Wilting — 100 harmonographs

    Harmonographs

    Harmonograph drawings, decaying pendulum curves that spiral inwards as their swings slowly die away.

    All 12 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Brine into Ravaged Tarnishing — 49 cardioids

    Cardioids

    Cardioids, heart-shaped curves with a single cusp, sometimes slightly dented or looped.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Meditative Brook on the Reckoning — 35 self-avoiding walks

    Self-Avoiding Walks

    Self-avoiding walks, lattice paths that crowd into dense tangles without ever crossing themselves.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • The Hellish Brine amidst Weeping — 64 evolutes

    Evolutes

    Evolutes, the curves traced by a curve's centres of curvature, enveloped by its normal lines.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Bog over Hardy Abiding — 100 confocal conics

    Confocal Conics

    Confocal conics, a net of ellipses and hyperbolas sharing two foci and crossing everywhere at right angles.

    All 12 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Loyal Bay down the Bearing — 14 trochoids

    Trochoids

    Epitrochoids and hypotrochoids, looping curves drawn by a pen on a circle rolling outside or inside another.

    All 12 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • What Grave-toned Arch before Balancing — 115 lituus spirals

    Lituus Spirals

    Lituus and hyperbolic spirals, curves that wind toward the center while their outer arm opens along an axis.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Patinaed Canyon Around Bordering — 27 clelia curves

    Clelia curves

    Clelia curves, spherical spirals whose longitude is proportional to latitude, winding from pole to pole.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Grave-toned Canyon under Depositing — 139 Fourier epicycles

    Fourier Epicycles

    Fourier epicycles, a chain of rotating circles whose last arm traces a closed symmetric curve.

    All 12 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Matronly Bluff above the Returning — 26 rose curves

    Rose Curves

    Rose curves, polar curves whose petals come from the cosine of a multiplied angle.

    All 12 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Olive Alcove circa Crafting — 107 Fermat spirals

    Fermat Spirals

    Fermat spirals, whose arms grow with the square root of the angle, as in sunflower heads.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Bog of Frank along Tending — 125 algebraic curves

    Algebraic Curves

    Classical algebraic curves such as the bicorn, kappa curve, Maclaurin trisectrix and cruciform, drawn as families with their asymptotes.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • What Late Bog toward Collecting — 98 folium curves

    Folium Curves

    Folia of Descartes, leaf-shaped loops with two arms trailing away from the loop.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Aurora despite Limpid Emanating — 98 petal rosettes

    Petal Rosettes

    Petal rosettes, nested four- or eight-petal rosettes r = cos(2mθ) + k·cos(6mθ) whose petals gain fine inner loops.

    1 on viewLeaves 6 December

  • When Mossbacked Brook across Seasoning — 29 circle involutes

    Circle Involutes

    Circle involutes, the curve traced by the end of a string unwound from a circle.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • When the Mindful Brook without Forging — 100 catenaries

    Catenaries

    Catenaries, the curve a chain or rope makes when it hangs freely between two points.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Elated Candle round Glowing — 117 conchoids

    Conchoids

    Conchoids of Nicomedes, curves that lie a fixed distance beyond and before a line, seen from a pole.

    All 13 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • When Pellucid Blossom onto Flaring — Vortex, 59 elements

    Vortex

    Spirals whose stroke width swells and thins along the curve, like a twisted cord winding into a vortex.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • Ample Bog on the Grounding — 94 golden spirals

    Golden Spirals

    Golden spirals, logarithmic spirals that grow by the golden ratio with every quarter turn.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Rustic Bay of the Clearing — 100 conic sections

    Conic Sections

    Conic sections: a double cone cut by a tilted plane, giving an ellipse, parabola or hyperbola.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What Shaded Brine across Curdling — 50 farris wheels

    Farris Wheels

    Farris wheels, mystery curves traced by three or four rotating circles whose frequencies force a rotational symmetry.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Quiet Basin with Laboring — 3 lemniscates

    Lemniscates

    Lemniscates, figure-of-eight curves like the infinity sign, in varying sizes and tilts.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What the Arch throughout Deliberate Bearing — 55 paths

    Paths

    Winding paths of connected segments that wander across the canvas without closing.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Recollected Brook Inside Bearing — 78 watt curves

    Watt curves

    Watt curves, the figure-eight and looped paths traced by the coupler midpoint of a Watt linkage.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Bluff of Steady-handed through Melting — 100 orbits

    Orbits

    Concentric elliptical orbits around a centre, like a diagram of planets and their paths.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Ingrained Bluff behind Waiting — 125 seiffert's spirals

    Seiffert's Spirals

    Seiffert's spherical spiral, a single curve of constant speed winding evenly from pole to pole around a sphere.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When Familiar Basin down Leaning — 66 coffee-cup caustics

    Coffee-Cup Caustics

    Coffee-cup caustics, parallel light rays reflected inside a cup or ring, their envelope tracing a nephroid.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When the Sure Atoll throughout Working — 131 Theodorus spirals

    Theodorus Spirals

    Spirals of Theodorus, built from right triangles whose hypotenuses grow as square roots.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Sparkly Aurora throughout the Suffusing — 13 cochleoids

    Cochleoids

    Cochleoids, snail curves r = a·sin θ/θ whose loops wind ever tighter into the origin.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Steady Border throughout the Girding — 100 Maurer roses

    Maurer Roses

    Maurer roses, polygons that connect points of a rose curve r = sin(nθ) at a fixed angular step.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Pure Candle from Cheering — 3 butterfly curves

    Butterfly Curves

    Butterfly curves, Temple Fay's polar curve whose loops look like a butterfly's wings.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When the Fixed Brook toward Rolling — 39 spiric sections

    Spiric Sections

    Spiric sections, parallel slices through a torus giving twin rings, figure eights, peanuts and ovals.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Arch Inside Steady-handed Lining — 80 hippopedes

    Hippopedes

    Hippopedes, Booth's curves forming ovals, pinched ovals and figure-eights depending on the ratio of two parameters.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Abiding Basin Inside Engraving — 33 cycloids

    Cycloids

    Cycloids, the paths traced by a point on a rolling wheel, drawn as a row of arches.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Beckoning Candle amidst the Crowning — 105 curves

    Curves

    Smooth Bézier curves sweeping across the canvas in long, open strokes.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When Grainy Basin before Returning — 121 pedal curves

    Pedal curves

    Pedal curves, traced by the feet of perpendiculars dropped from a fixed point onto a curve's tangents.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Cape amid Calm Spanning — 54 Fourier series

    Fourier Series

    Fourier series, partial sums of a square or sawtooth wave stacked or overlaid, sharpening toward the target with Gibbs overshoot.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What the Serene Bay opposite Enclosing — 50 times tables

    Times Tables

    Times tables on a circle, hundreds of chords from each point to its multiple, enveloping cardioids, nephroids and roses.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Penumbral Bedrock alongside Grinding — 64 nephroids

    Nephroids

    Nephroids, kidney-shaped curves traced by a point on a circle rolling around a circle twice its size.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What the Desolate Brine past Disintegrating — 18 Euler spirals

    Euler Spirals

    Euler spirals, curves whose curvature grows evenly with their length, as used in road and railway design.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What the Border unto Weighted Winding — Lissajous, 50 elements

    Lissajous

    Lissajous figures, the looping curves traced when two perpendicular oscillations combine.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Reflective Bluff throughout the Distilling — 94 epispirals

    Epispirals

    Epispirals, polar curves r = a/cos(nθ) whose branches open outwards from a star of vertices.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Devoted Canyon above the Cycling — 48 tricuspoids

    Tricuspoids

    Tricuspoids, also called deltoid curves, with three cusps traced by a circle rolling inside another.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Barren Cavern after Stifling — 127 bézier constructions

    Bézier constructions

    Bézier curves with their de Casteljau construction: control polygon, nested interpolation lines and the resulting curve.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Bog round Soft Learning — 27 viviani's curves

    Viviani's curves

    Viviani's curves, the figure-of-eight where a sphere meets a cylinder, shown with both surfaces in outline.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What the Border unto Reserved Sharing — 96 zigzags

    Zigzags

    Zigzag lines that alternate sharply between two sides of a straight axis, in small and large steps.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Restful Canyon underneath Moving — 55 cissoids

    Cissoids

    Cissoids of Diocles, curves with a cusp at the origin whose branches approach an asymptote.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Unhurried Bluff circa Standing — 81 limaçons

    Limaçons

    Limaçons, snail-shaped polar curves that range from dimpled to looped, drawn as nested layers.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Permanent Acre from the Damming — 85 polylines

    Polylines

    Open chains of straight segments that change direction at every joint.

    All 7 on viewNewest leaves 4 December

  • The Elevated Breath down Dazzling — 101 strophoids

    Strophoids

    Strophoids, curves with a loop at the node and two branches reaching toward an asymptote.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 4 December

  • Wise Atoll onto the Changing — 124 spirals

    Spirals

    Spirals winding outwards from their centres, in varying tightness, size and direction.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 4 December

  • What the Canyon unto Subtle Continuing — 78 superformula shapes

    Superformula Shapes

    Shapes from Johan Gielis' superformula, which turns a few parameters into stars, flowers and polygons.

    All 7 on viewNewest leaves 4 December

  • Bean Curves

    Bean curves, kidney-shaped quartic curves drawn as dense families with shifting parameters.

    None on view right now

  • Cardioid Caustics

    Cardioid caustics, envelopes of light rays reflected inside a circle, forming cardioids and rosettes.

    None on view right now

  • Cayley Sextics

    Cayley's sextics, sixth-degree curves that wrap three loops around a common core.

    None on view right now

  • Hypocycloid Nets

    Hypocycloid nets, hypocycloids with different cusp counts laid inside one another.

    None on view right now

  • Parallel Curves

    Parallel curves, offset lines of ellipses and cardioids that form cusps where the offset passes the radius of curvature.

    None on view right now

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Fractals 49 forms

  • Dainty Aurora through the Radiating — 25 T-Squares

    T-Squares

    T-squares, fractals of squares centred on each outer corner of a larger square.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Patient Bay outside Toiling — 25 Minkowski sausages

    Minkowski Sausages

    Minkowski sausages, fractal outlines made by replacing every segment with an eight-part square wave.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Autumnal Border in Arching — 43 indra's pearls

    Indra's Pearls

    Indra's pearls, chains of tangent circles from a kissing Schottky group, nesting toward a fractal necklace with four cusps.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • What Warm Atoll amidst Opening — 19 stern–brocot trees

    Stern–Brocot Trees

    Stern–Brocot trees, the binary tree of all fractions with arched branches, laid out by value as arch or fan.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Alcove of Durable round Weighing — 47 Lévy curves

    Lévy Curves

    Lévy C curves, fractals built by replacing every segment with two at right angles.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Tawny Bluff underneath Laboring — 75 ikeda attractors

    Ikeda Attractors

    Ikeda attractors, spiral arms produced by iterating a simple map from a laser model.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • When Fertile Bluff Around Grading — 111 H-Trees

    H-Trees

    H-trees, H shapes branching at the tips of smaller H shapes, as used in chip clock wiring.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • When Level-headed Canyon nearby Settling — 50 quadratic Koch islands

    Quadratic Koch Islands

    Quadratic Koch islands, squares whose edges are recursively replaced by right-angled steps, some with inner lakes.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • When Lustrous Candle into Greeting — 112 Sierpinski triangles

    Sierpinski Triangles

    Sierpinski triangles, a triangle with its centre removed, repeated in every remaining part.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • When Sun-dappled Candle throughout Brightening — 98 Sierpinski arrowheads

    Sierpinski Arrowheads

    Sierpinski arrowhead curves, a single winding line that approaches the Sierpinski triangle.

    All 12 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • What the Bay unto Dusky-gold Rolling — 25 newton fractals

    Newton Fractals

    Newton fractals, the basins of zⁿ − 1 drawn as contour rings around three or four roots and their beaded borders.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Sustained Bluff across Melding — 75 circle fractals

    Circle Fractals

    Circle fractals, in which every circle carries two to four smaller circles, repeated over several generations.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Basin behind Bronzed Inscribing — 50 lyapunov contours

    Lyapunov Contours

    Contour lines of a Lyapunov fractal, nested fans and bands where the logistic map stays stable.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Blaze between Opaline Dispersing — 50 collatz trees

    Collatz Trees

    Collatz trees, the paths of many numbers back to one, drawn as curling branches bending at each odd step.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Joyless Carbon onto Expiring — 87 Dürer pentagons

    Dürer Pentagons

    Dürer pentagons, a pentagon split by the golden ratio into six smaller pentagons, repeated recursively and drawn as outlines.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • When Composed Basin among Traveling — 90 dragon curves

    Dragon Curves

    Dragon curves, the path produced by folding a strip of paper in half again and again.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • When the Ripened Canyon within Depositing — 77 Cesàro curves

    Cesàro Curves

    Cesàro curves, a Koch variant with a sharp bump angle whose segments fold back on themselves at every level.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Pellucid Aura Around the Flaring — 32 pentaflakes

    Pentaflakes

    Pentaflakes and hexaflakes, regular pentagons or hexagons recursively replaced by smaller copies of themselves, drawn as outlines.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Breath among Aloft Lilting — 87 Barnsley ferns

    Barnsley Ferns

    Barnsley ferns, an iterated function system whose four simple maps draw a lifelike fern.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • What the Darkened Abyss onto Sinking — 25 chaotic flows

    Chaotic Flows

    Chaotic flows, orbits of the Aizawa, Thomas and Halvorsen attractors winding in dense tangles around fixed points.

    1 on viewLeaves 6 December

  • Plainspoken Canyon between the Tracing — 25 box fractals

    Box Fractals

    Box fractals, squares that split recursively into corner and centre cells.

    1 on viewLeaves 6 December

  • The Brook for Sober Spinning — 31 multibrot outlines

    Multibrot Outlines

    Multibrot outlines, contour lines of the Mandelbrot family with higher powers and several lobes.

    1 on viewLeaves 6 December

  • Melancholy Burial in the Wrecking — 42 Apollonian gaskets

    Apollonian Gaskets

    Apollonian gaskets, circles packed into the gaps between three touching circles, again and again.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • Illumined Blaze up the Crowning — 84 takagi curves

    Takagi Curves

    Takagi or blancmange curves, the sum of ever smaller triangle waves, shown layered or above their stacked components.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • When Stoic Bog unto Enclosing — 25 Mandelbrot outlines

    Mandelbrot Outlines

    Mandelbrot outlines, nested escape-time contour lines around the boundary of the Mandelbrot set, sometimes zoomed into its edge.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Bog behind Warm-hued Enclosing — 25 jerusalem crosses

    Jerusalem Crosses

    Jerusalem crosses, a square cut by a Greek cross, its corner and edge squares repeating the cut in two sizes.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • When Level-headed Arch upon Keeping — 107 L-System trees

    L-System Trees

    Recursive trees whose branches split into two at slightly varying angles and shrink with each level.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • Fathomed Border During Crafting — 60 Vicsek fractals

    Vicsek Fractals

    Vicsek fractals, five squares in a cross or X pattern, repeated inside each of their own squares.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • What Weightless Beam past Quickening — 50 strange attractors

    Strange Attractors

    Strange attractors, Lorenz and Rössler trajectories projected from 3D, chaotic yet never leaving their bounded shape.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What Attentive Border from Seasoning — 18 menger sponges

    Menger Sponges

    Menger sponges in perspective, cubes pierced by square tunnels at every scale, drawn as wireframes.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Loamy Bog amid Staying — 40 sierpiński curves

    Sierpiński Curves

    Sierpiński curves, the closed space-filling curve whose diagonal steps weave a lattice of small octagons inside a square.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When Unshaken Brook onto Adjusting — 22 rauzy fractals

    Rauzy Fractals

    Rauzy fractals, the fractal tile of the Tribonacci substitution outlined with its three interlocking subtiles.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Canyon of Measured outside Fastening — 100 Hilbert curves

    Hilbert Curves

    Hilbert curves, space-filling paths that visit every cell of a grid without crossing themselves.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Solemn-warm Brook circa Tracing — 3 Fibonacci word fractals

    Fibonacci Word Fractals

    Fibonacci word fractals, a single line that runs straight or turns a right angle following the Fibonacci word.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When Crisp Cascade past Sprouting — 100 weierstrass curves

    Weierstrass Curves

    Weierstrass curves, a cosine wave gaining finer and finer ripples in stages until it is jagged everywhere.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Bluff of Centered circa Damming — 132 Koch curves

    Koch Curves

    Koch curves, made by replacing every straight segment with a pointed bump, again and again.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What Plainspoken Basin Against Channeling — 43 ford circles

    Ford Circles

    Ford circles, one circle resting on a line above every fraction, touching exactly where the fractions are neighbours.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Cape of Cultivated up Plowing — 50 Julia sets

    Julia Sets

    Contour lines of Julia sets, drawn from how quickly points escape under a complex quadratic map.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When the Seraphic Aura amid Bubbling — Sierpiński Tetrahedra, 100 elements

    Sierpiński Tetrahedra

    Sierpiński tetrahedra in perspective, a tetrahedron recursively split into four smaller ones, as wireframe.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Autumnal Brook of Circling — 50 Pythagoras trees

    Pythagoras Trees

    Pythagoras trees, squares branching into two smaller squares on the sides of a right triangle.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What the Alcove toward Pragmatic Dividing — Burning Ship, 75 elements

    Burning Ship

    Burning Ship fractal as contour lines, the ship with its masts above flat water bands.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What the Brook under Sure Persisting — 50 Sierpinski carpets

    Sierpinski Carpets

    Sierpinski carpets, squares divided into nine with the centre removed, repeated in every part.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When Salted Brook of Remaining — 75 ulam spirals

    Ulam Spirals

    Ulam spirals, prime numbers marked as small circles along square, hexagonal or Sacks number spirals.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When Faltering Basalt circa Scorching — Cantor Dust, 66 elements

    Cantor Dust

    Cantor sets, stacked rows of line segments in which the middle third is removed at every level.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 4 December

  • Hénon Maps

    Hénon maps, the folded ribbons of the Hénon attractor drawn as fine point and line traces.

    None on view right now

  • Magnet Fractals

    Magnet fractals, contour lines of the sets that arise from the renormalisation of ferromagnetic lattices.

    None on view right now

  • Moore Curves

    Moore curves, closed variants of the Hilbert curve that fill a square in a loop.

    None on view right now

  • Phoenix Outlines

    Phoenix outlines, contour lines of the Phoenix fractal, a Julia-like set that remembers the previous iteration.

    None on view right now

  • Tricorn Outlines

    Tricorn outlines, contour lines of the three-cornered mirror cousin of the Mandelbrot set.

    None on view right now

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Generative systems 71 forms

  • The Arch onto Strong Spinning — 28 chaikin subdivisions

    Chaikin Subdivisions

    Chaikin subdivisions, angular polylines rounded step by step into smooth curves, every stage shown.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • The Radiating Alabaster within the Soaring — 16 field lines

    Field Lines

    Field lines around point charges, curving from one pole to another like iron filings.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • What the Bronzed Arch amid Laboring — 54 weave mazes

    Weave mazes

    Weave mazes, labyrinths in which passages cross over and under one another.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • What the Mellow Bay until Meeting — 125 mikado sticks

    Mikado sticks

    Mikado sticks, a heap of dropped sticks that cross and lie on top of one another.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • What the Warm-hued Arch unto Enduring — 74 gabriel graphs

    Gabriel graphs

    Gabriel graphs, neighbour networks that keep only the edges with an empty circle between their ends.

    All 2 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Vintage Atoll circa Stirring — 19 langton's ants

    Langton's Ants

    Langton's ants, the cells flipped by an ant on a grid through chaos until its diagonal highway emerges.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • When the Reflective Acre after Seeding — 49 stipplings

    Stipplings

    Stippling, a sphere, ring, cylinder or pebble shaded only by the density of many small dots.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Candle of Hopeful Inside Swelling — 33 grids

    Grids

    Grids after Agnes Martin, fine hand-drawn pencil lines in squares, flat rectangles or paired bands, slightly irregular.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Evenhanded Bog betwixt Reckoning — 100 metaball contours

    Metaball Contours

    Several merging blobs drawn as contour lines, an outer shared hull narrowing into separate rings around each center.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • What Dusty Bog by Fording — 89 turmite trails

    Turmite Trails

    Turmite trails, paths of two-dimensional Turing machines that change state on a grid and draw ribbons.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • The Lasting Alcove out Abiding — 75 polarization ellipses

    Polarization Ellipses

    Polarization ellipses, oscillation paths of polarized light in a grid, from straight line through ellipse to circle.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • Plain Bay without Kindling — 41 ferrofluid spikes

    Ferrofluid Spikes

    Ferrofluid spikes, hexagonally arranged peaks of a magnetic liquid with a raised rim.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • When Countrified Canyon into Persisting — 46 schlieren plumes

    Schlieren Plumes

    Schlieren plumes, rising heat columns as in a schlieren photograph, with mushroom heads and fine eddies.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • Gleaming Blaze During Elevating — 50 paper creases

    Paper Creases

    Paper creases, a network of straight long and short fold lines meeting in vertices on a crumpled sheet.

    All 12 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Burial outside Dour Scorching — 106 squared squares

    Squared Squares

    Squared Squares, a square tiled by smaller squares that all differ in size, after Duijvestijn's perfect dissection.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Atoll beneath Loyal Depositing — 17 contours

    Contours

    Nested, irregular closed rings sharing one wavy profile, like contour lines around a hill.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Coarse Cairn along the Chilling — Differential Growth, 25 elements

    Differential Growth

    Differential growth, a single closed line that keeps lengthening and folds into coral-like meanders without crossing itself.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • What the Lonely Brine between Souring — 10 water caustics

    Water Caustics

    Water caustics, a wobbly net of bright light filaments with thickened knots, as on a pool floor.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • What the Morning Air Since Cheering — 50 drainage networks

    Drainage Networks

    Drainage Networks, a river catchment seen from above, tributaries branching from one main stream inside a dashed watershed.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • What the Permanent Arch till Learning — 75 circle packings

    Circle Packings

    Circle packings, circles grown from random seeds until they touch, without overlapping.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Condemned Brine with Suffocating — 58 minimum spanning trees

    Minimum spanning trees

    Minimum spanning trees, the shortest network that links a scatter of random points.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • Fixed Brook until Toiling — 31 lichtenberg figures

    Lichtenberg Figures

    Lichtenberg figures, branching discharge paths fanning out from a strike point inside a disc or block.

    All 12 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Mellow Border beside Steadying — 75 substrate cracks

    Substrate Cracks

    Substrate cracks, lines that grow straight and branch at right angles until they meet another line.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Acre along Clay-rolled Arching — 50 poisson-disk rings

    Poisson-Disk Rings

    Poisson-disk rings, evenly scattered rings that never overlap, like raindrops on water.

    1 on viewLeaves 6 December

  • Natural Brook amid Grounding — 100 displaced lines

    Displaced Lines

    Parallel horizontal lines pushed aside by invisible circles, so that they bulge around hidden obstacles.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Lukewarm Brook via Seasoning — Hommage à Klee, 75 elements

    Hommage à Klee

    Homage to Klee after Frieder Nake, horizontal zigzag bands filled with bundles of vertical and diagonal strokes and small circles.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Frugal Border into Entwining — 100 line arrangements

    Line arrangements

    Line arrangements, random straight lines that cut the frame into convex cells, with alternate cells hatched.

    1 on viewLeaves 6 December

  • Autumnal Cape up the Damming — 2 hamiltonian paths

    Hamiltonian paths

    Hamiltonian paths, a single route that visits every cell of a grid exactly once, with turns and rounded corners.

    1 on viewLeaves 6 December

  • Copper Cape up the Toiling — 69 marching squares

    Marching Squares

    Marching squares, angular isolines of a random field, straighter than smooth contour maps.

    1 on viewLeaves 6 December

  • The Blended Bog amidst Hedging — 6 zen gardens

    Zen Gardens

    Raked gravel garden in a frame, parallel rake lines giving way to concentric rings around groups of stones.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • When Stoic Bluff before Cycling — Reticulárea, 100 elements

    Reticulárea

    Reticulárea after Gego, layered irregular wire nets of triangles and quads with slightly bent rods and small knots.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • Vast Blossom Since the Beaming — 75 WFC tiles

    WFC Tiles

    Wave function collapse grids of line tiles, straights, corners and junctions, chosen so that connections match.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • Sagacious Border upon Inscribing — 75 op-art waves

    Op-Art Waves

    Op-art waves, dense parallel lines bent into waves that seem to move on the canvas.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Cherubic Aura circa the Crescendoing — 75 triangle subdivisions

    Triangle Subdivisions

    Triangles split again and again into smaller triangles, dense in some places and open in others.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Sunny Breath till Sparkling — 75 oscillograms

    Oscillograms

    Oscillograms after Herbert W. Franke, sheaves of oscilloscope traces whose shifting phase folds them into luminous ribbons.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Staid Bog until Closing — 49 line halftones

    Line Halftones

    Line halftones, parallel wavy lines whose amplitude or frequency swells to shade a sphere, rings or a gradient.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Arch into Homely Lacing — 100 random walks

    Random Walks

    Random walks, wandering paths of many small random steps, sometimes on a grid or with rare long Lévy jumps.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What the Bay amid Warm Extending — 48 lines

    Lines

    Lines after Zdeněk Sýkora: ribbons of varying width sweep across a square field in grid-based arcs and straights.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Roseate Aura without the Gilding — TSP Art, 37 elements

    TSP Art

    TSP art, one closed travelling-salesman tour through hundreds of points whose varying density forms the picture.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Time-honored Border Inside Arching — Cellular Automata, 16 elements

    Cellular Automata

    Cellular automata, generations of elementary rules such as 30, 90 and 110 drawn as cell outlines.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What the Mirthful Alabaster behind Dazzling — 25 interruptions

    Interruptions

    Interruptions after Vera Molnár, a square grid of equal short strokes at random angles, broken by irregular empty patches.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Muted Cairn from Defiling — 57 labyrinths

    Labyrinths

    Labyrinths drawn as one winding corridor, a square spiral running from the outer edge to the centre.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Staid Bluff nearby Plowing — 12 Mondrian compositions

    Mondrian Compositions

    Compositions of horizontal and vertical lines dividing a rectangle, after Piet Mondrian.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Mellowed Bluff until the Curving — 18 cubic limits

    Cubic Limits

    Cubic Limits after Manfred Mohr, projected cubes or hypercubes drawn as incomplete subsets of their edges, often gridded.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Wise Brook toward the Grading — Schotter, 75 elements

    Schotter

    Schotter after Georg Nees, a grid of squares whose rotation and offset increase from top to bottom.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What the Bluff alongside Intrinsic Crafting — 7 warped rings

    Warped Rings

    Concentric rings bent out of round by noise, like ripples in a disturbed pond.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Sober Brook During Settling — DLA Growth, 25 elements

    DLA Growth

    Diffusion-limited aggregation, random walkers that stick to a growing cluster and form coral-like branches.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Basin throughout Burnished Lining — 100 diagrams

    Diagrams

    Diagrams, snail spirals, joined double spirals, divided circle diagrams and a stepped pyramid beneath a ringed disc.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What Seasoned Bog opposite Standing — Pier and Ocean, 75 elements

    Pier and Ocean

    Pier and Ocean, short plus and minus signs scattered in an oval, densest at the rim, with a vertical pier.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What the Certain Bay by Sounding — 25 vega grids

    Vega Grids

    Vega grids after Victor Vasarely, a square grid whose lines swell outward into one or two spheres, sometimes checkered.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Even Canyon circa the Grading — 84 recamán arcs

    Recamán Arcs

    Recamán arcs, the Recamán sequence drawn as half-circles hopping back and forth along a number line.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Moderate Acre amid Reaching — 69 n-body trails

    N-Body Trails

    N-Body Trails, the looping paths of three to five bodies pulling on each other under gravity.

    All 7 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Air of Winsome out Whirling — 21 flow fields

    Flow Fields

    Flow fields, lines that follow the directions of a smooth noise field like currents in water.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Woven Bluff under Ripening — 25 physarum networks

    Physarum Networks

    Physarum networks, a slime mould's branching vein network linking oat flakes, with thick tubes, fine veins and a fan-shaped front.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When Dusty Bay betwixt Earning — 60 scribbles

    Scribbles

    Scribbles, tangled balls drawn as one long smooth line that loops around itself again and again.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Arch of Sun-baked Spanning — 25 hachures

    Hachures

    Hachures, short strokes pointing downhill across a noise-generated relief, as drawn on old maps.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What the Fixed Border near Passing — 75 bubble chamber tracks

    Bubble Chamber Tracks

    Bubble chamber tracks, particle paths from collision points: tight electron spirals, curved arcs and V-shaped decays.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What Melancholy Abyss round Languishing — 75 sandpiles

    Sandpiles

    Sandpiles, height contours of an abelian sandpile toppled from a single heap into a square mandala.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Blended Border round the Weighing — 50 grilles

    Grilles

    Grilles after François Morellet, superimposed grids of parallel lines, each rotated by a fixed angle, producing moiré.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Border of Wholesome During Connecting — Craquelure, 50 elements

    Craquelure

    Craquelure, the fine crack network of old paint, drawn as slightly wobbly outlines of Voronoi cells.

    All 12 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When Loamy Bluff Inside Forging — 3 reaction-diffusion contours

    Reaction-Diffusion Contours

    Reaction-diffusion contours, outlines of spots and mazes grown by a simulated Gray-Scott chemical reaction.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 4 December

  • The Atoll of Earnest without Stirring — 25 boid trails

    Boid Trails

    Boid trails, the paths of simulated flocking birds that steer by separation, alignment and cohesion.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 4 December

  • The Well-worn Bog onto the Settling — 125 chance and order drawings

    Chance and Order drawings

    Chance and Order after Kenneth Martin, lines between grid points drawn by lot, bundled and sometimes rotated fourfold.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 4 December

  • Domino runs

    Domino runs, chains of standing tiles that curve and branch across a surface.

    None on view right now

  • Granular Force Chains

    Granular force chains, branching lines of stress running between contact points in a heap of grains.

    None on view right now

  • Heat Diffusion

    Heat diffusion, isotherms from heat sources in a plate, blending softly into one another.

    None on view right now

  • Ising domains

    Ising domains, magnetic regions as branching areas with jagged boundaries.

    None on view right now

  • Lloyd relaxation

    Lloyd relaxation, Voronoi cells over several relaxation steps, from random scatter to an even honeycomb.

    None on view right now

  • Percolation clusters

    Percolation clusters, connected groups on a random grid with only their edges drawn.

    None on view right now

  • Power diagrams

    Power diagrams, weighted Voronoi cells shown as circles with the straight borders between them.

    None on view right now

  • Wave Packets

    Wave packets, travelling groups of waves with envelopes that spread apart and overlap.

    None on view right now

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Patterns and ornament 122 forms

  • The Ashen-warm Canyon without Calming — 141 quilling scrolls

    Quilling scrolls

    Quilling scrolls, rolled paper strips pressed into spirals, teardrops and leaf shapes.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • Forthright Border from Laboring — 60 cross-stitch motifs

    Cross-stitch motifs

    Cross-stitch motifs, small crosses on a counted grid forming symmetric medallions, border bands and repeated patterns.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • When the Meditative Brook Since Carrying — Kawung, 29 elements

    Kawung

    Kawung, Javanese batik motif of four ovals meeting at a point, repeated in a diagonal grid.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Autumnal Basin opposite Extending — 140 jigsaw cuts

    Jigsaw cuts

    Jigsaw cuts, the knobs and sockets of puzzle pieces, with a few pieces lifted out.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • When the Changeless Brook over Arching — Chainmail, 50 elements

    Chainmail

    Chainmail, interlinked wire rings in European four-in-one, six-in-one or Japanese patterns, each passing over and under.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Coruscating Aura between the Leaping — Crazy patchwork, 100 elements

    Crazy patchwork

    Crazy patchwork, irregular fabric scraps with decorative stitches along the seams, spread loosely over a field.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • Balmy Aurora through Emanating — 33 kente strips

    Kente Strips

    Kente cloth, narrow woven strips sewn side by side with alternating stripe sections and staggered pattern blocks.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Bay via Rough Shaping — Hitomezashi, 25 elements

    Hitomezashi

    Hitomezashi, Japanese running-stitch patterns on square or triangular grids whose dash-gap rule forms crosses, stars and hexagons.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Easygoing Bluff circa Pressing — 94 knit stitches

    Knit stitches

    Knit stitches, charts of knit and purl columns drawn as ribs, seed stitch and cables of V-shaped chains.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • The Diffuse Air across Glinting — 125 muqarnas plans

    Muqarnas Plans

    Muqarnas plans, floor plans of stalactite vaults with interlocking cells and facets.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • The Atoll until Copper Sowing — 62 frieze patterns

    Frieze patterns

    Frieze patterns, the seven border symmetry groups built from reflections, glide reflections and rotations of an irregular motif.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • When Gentle Brook Since Bordering — Versailles Parquet, 50 elements

    Versailles Parquet

    Versailles parquet, square panels of interlaced diagonal and straight boards from the French palace.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • When the Fanciful Aurora over Flecking — 32 Penrose suns

    Penrose Suns

    Penrose suns, five golden kites meeting at one point with fivefold symmetry, the starting patch of a Penrose tiling.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • When Slow Bog for Delineating — 64 wicker fences

    Wicker Fences

    Wicker fences, willow rods woven around upright stakes.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • The Rustic Bluff outside the Joining — Rangoli, 128 elements

    Rangoli

    Rangoli-style flower patterns, leaf-shaped petals repeated symmetrically around a centre.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Thick Brook beside Layering — 100 thatch roofs

    Thatch Roofs

    Thatch roofs, layered reed with a ridge roll and dormers.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • What the Abiding Alcove after Brewing — Houndstooth, 54 elements

    Houndstooth

    Houndstooth, the broken check of four-pointed shapes known from woven wool fabrics.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Shaped Alcove off the Joining — 103 string figures

    String figures

    String figures, a loop of string held between fingers that forms diamonds and steps.

    All 2 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Late Canyon amid Resting — 75 mandalas

    Mandalas

    Mandala-style figures of radial spokes with small circles at concentric radii, symmetric around a centre.

    All 13 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Timeworn Basin out Reckoning — 25 ironwork scrolls

    Ironwork scrolls

    Ironwork scrolls, wrought-iron curls, spirals and tendrils in a rhythmic sequence.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • Haunted Cave beside Blackening — Mosaic andamento, 50 elements

    Mosaic andamento

    Mosaic andamento, rows of tesserae flowing along contours and filling the areas between them.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • When the Attentive Border of Building — 75 Cairo tilings

    Cairo Tilings

    Cairo tilings of pentagons, named after the street paving found in Cairo.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • What the Mellowed Atoll beneath Cooling — Kumiko, 50 elements

    Kumiko

    Kumiko-style hexagonal lattices with long diagonals and a smaller inner hexagon in every cell.

    All 12 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Changeless Brook in the Joining — 49 chair tilings

    Chair Tilings

    Chair tiling, a self-similar substitution tiling where every L-shaped tromino splits into four smaller copies.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Brook round Known Standing — 78 pinwheel tiles

    Pinwheel Tiles

    Pinwheel motifs, asymmetric triangular blades arranged around a centre, inspired by the Pinwheel tiling.

    All 12 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Practical Atoll toward the Lining — 39 go games

    Go Games

    Go boards showing a randomly played game, black stones as concentric rings and white stones as plain circles.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Leisurely Acre past Holding — 54 stripes

    Stripes

    Bands of parallel stripes in varying widths, spacings and angles.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • What the Nacreous Alabaster atop Quickening — Argyle, 100 elements

    Argyle

    Argyle, diamonds in a diagonal checkerboard crossed by thin diagonal lines, as on knitted socks.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • What the Atoll among Grounded Grading — Girih, 50 elements

    Girih

    Girih-style patterns, interlaced stars and connecting strapwork on a triangular lattice, inspired by Islamic geometric ornament.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Attentive Alcove amid Sowing — 37 bobbin diagrams

    Bobbin diagrams

    Bobbin lace diagrams, pin points and thread paths that add up to a lace pattern.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • What the Basin into Solid Returning — 57 lozenge tilings

    Lozenge Tilings

    Lozenge tilings, random rhombus tilings of a hexagon that read as stacks of cubes in a box corner.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Forbearing Atoll outside the Winding — 77 Truchet tiles

    Truchet Tiles

    Truchet tiles, square tiles with quarter-circle arcs in one of two orientations that join into meandering lines.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Lukewarm Bluff underneath the Seasoning — 50 ndebele patterns

    Ndebele Patterns

    Ndebele patterns, a symmetric house facade of framed panels with stepped pyramids, chevrons, gables and borders.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • What the Bog off Sure Crossing — 50 dry-stone walls

    Dry-stone walls

    Dry-stone walls, irregular stones laid without mortar, each fitted into the gaps around it.

    All 2 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Arch down Solid Melting — 75 wythoff constructions

    Wythoff constructions

    Wythoff constructions, tilings built by mirroring a triangle, in many vertex variants.

    All 2 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • When Easygoing Bog after Forming — Reticello lace, 71 elements

    Reticello lace

    Reticello lace, a square thread net with filled cells and pointed edges.

    All 2 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Brine of Ravenous Since Burning — 7 doilies

    Doilies

    Doilies, crocheted rounds of stitches, chain loops, shells and petals finished with a scalloped picot edge.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • When Nuanced Basin on Damming — Tartan, 50 elements

    Tartan

    Tartan, crossing bands of horizontal and vertical stripes in the manner of Scottish plaid.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • When the Practical Basin for Gathering — Gothic Tracery, 92 elements

    Gothic Tracery

    Gothic tracery, the stone ornament of pointed arches, circles and foils in cathedral windows.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • What the Subtle Basin nearby Harboring — 53 fair isle charts

    Fair Isle charts

    Fair Isle charts, stacked knitting bands of OXO motifs, eight-pointed stars and small peerie patterns.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Alcove from Staid Returning — Basket Weave, 88 elements

    Basket Weave

    Basket weave, pairs of rectangles alternating between horizontal and vertical like woven strips.

    All 12 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • Tranquil Canyon via the Connecting — Running Bond, 16 elements

    Running Bond

    Running bond, the standard brick bond in which each row is offset by half a brick.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Enchanting Brilliance toward Inspiring — Hexagonal Truchet, 66 elements

    Hexagonal Truchet

    Hexagonal Truchet tiles, arc segments on hexagons that join at random into winding paths.

    1 on viewLeaves 6 December

  • The Basin until Weighty Working — Assisi embroidery, 113 elements

    Assisi embroidery

    Assisi embroidery, a counted-thread style that leaves the motif empty and fills the ground densely.

    1 on viewLeaves 6 December

  • The Candle onto Cool Swirling — Hardanger stitching, 50 elements

    Hardanger stitching

    Hardanger stitching, Norwegian counted-thread work with satin blocks and stars of parallel stitches.

    1 on viewLeaves 6 December

  • When Strong Arch Inside Girding — Igeta, 25 elements

    Igeta

    Igeta well-frame lattice, doubled bars crossing over and under as a woven field or single crest, sometimes diamond-shaped.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • What Solid Acre nearby Resting — 47 yarai lattices

    Yarai lattices

    Yarai lattices, panels of two layers of crossing diagonal slats with over-under weaving, horizontal rails and an optional frame.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Daylit Alabaster beside Gleaming — Kaki-no-hana Sashiko, 77 elements

    Kaki-no-hana Sashiko

    Kaki-no-hana sashiko, small cross-shaped flowers outlined in running stitches, set in offset rows inside a stitched frame.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • What the Wholesome Bog via Reaching — 103 Celtic knots

    Celtic Knots

    Knot-like rosettes of looping, self-crossing curves with many lobes, in the spirit of Celtic knotwork.

    All 12 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Bog along Fertile Pausing — 26 paisleys

    Paisleys

    Paisley motifs, nested teardrops with a spiral tail and a scatter of small dots in the innermost one.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Mature Brook nearby Abiding — 59 Art nouveau whiplash lines

    Art Nouveau Whiplash Lines

    Art Nouveau whiplash lines, doubled S-shaped tendrils with sudden curled ends, small leaves and buds, sometimes framed as a panel.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Bog until Loyal Tying — Asanoha, 50 elements

    Asanoha

    Asanoha, the Japanese hemp-leaf pattern of six-pointed stars built from triangles.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • When the Countrified Bog until Opening — 73 tatami layouts

    Tatami layouts

    Tatami room plans, two-to-one mats laid so no four corners meet, with border bands and doubled walls.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Basin of Permanent before Depositing — 64 koru spirals

    Koru Spirals

    Koru, the Māori unfurling fern frond, drawn as single scrolls, double spirals or kowhaiwhai bands.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • Sustained Bog among the Curing — 24 polar stitches

    Polar stitches

    Polar stitches, hitomezashi dash-and-gap stitching on concentric rings and radial spokes, forming rosette-like staircase patterns.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Bluff after Reasonable Melting — 7 magic lines

    Magic lines

    Magic lines after Claude Bragdon, joining the cells of a magic square in numerical order.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • When Sunbright Brilliance in Illumining — Blackwork, 50 elements

    Blackwork

    Blackwork, counted back-stitch fill patterns of stars, crosses and stepped octagons in outlined areas.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • Vintage Acre between Fording — 40 ice-ray lattices

    Ice-Ray Lattices

    Ice-ray lattices, Chinese window grilles of straight crack lines dividing a frame into irregular panes.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • What the Acre until Tawny Drawing — Xicalcoliuhqui, 32 elements

    Xicalcoliuhqui

    Xicalcoliuhqui, the Mesoamerican stepped fret in which a staircase ends in a squared spiral hook.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • When the Steady-handed Arch near Standing — Kikkō, 125 elements

    Kikkō

    Kikkō tortoise-shell lattice, doubled hexagon bands with inner hexagons, three-cell Bishamon groups or small flower motifs.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • When Jubilant Alabaster off Hovering — 21 Art Deco fans

    Art Deco Fans

    Art Deco fans, concentric semicircles with radiating lines, overlapped in rows in the style of the 1920s.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Bluff over Permanent Growing — Matsukawa-bishi, 75 elements

    Matsukawa-bishi

    Matsukawa-bishi, a Japanese pine-bark motif of stepped diamonds stacked and nested inside one another.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Venerable Bluff for Pacing — 81 cable knits

    Cable Knits

    Cable knits, knitted swatches with rope, braid or honeycomb cables crossing over and under between purl columns.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Time-honored Basin under the Rooting — 6 smocking patterns

    Smocking patterns

    Smocking patterns, stitch grids of anchor dots with honeycomb, trellis or diamond lattices that suggest gathered fabric pleats.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Fathomed Bog out Arching — Tachiwaku, 68 elements

    Tachiwaku

    Tachiwaku, the Japanese pattern of rising steam drawn as pairs of wavy vertical lines.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Mellow Basin along Weaving — 100 hatchings

    Hatchings

    Hatching and cross-hatching, sets of parallel strokes layered at different angles.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When the Shimmery Aurora Around Frosting — 44 arabesques

    Arabesques

    Arabesques, scrolling tendrils that curl inwards, repeated and mirrored around a centre in the spirit of Islamic ornament.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What the Aurora across Glorious Enchanting — 104 knight's tours

    Knight's tours

    Knight's tours, a chess knight's path visiting every square of the board exactly once, straight or curved.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Aching Carbon in Smothering — 75 pentomino rectangles

    Pentomino rectangles

    Pentomino rectangles, the twelve pentominoes packed without gaps into a six by ten or five by twelve rectangle.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Heartfelt Acre circa Guarding — Seigaiha, 25 elements

    Seigaiha

    Seigaiha, the Japanese pattern of overlapping concentric half-circles that stands for ocean waves.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Bloom on Starlit Foaming — Kogin-zashi, 25 elements

    Kogin-zashi

    Kogin-zashi, rows of short horizontal stitches over odd thread counts forming nested diamond motifs in bands.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Timeworn Atoll outside Hedging — 2 Ammann-Beenker tilings

    Ammann-Beenker Tilings

    Ammann-Beenker tilings, aperiodic patterns of squares and 45-degree rhombs with eightfold rotational symmetry.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Blithe Aurora outside the Cresting — Moiré, 21 elements

    Moiré

    Moiré patterns, two sets of concentric circles with offset centres whose interference creates shifting shapes.

    All 12 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Sustained Arch beside Steadying — 50 aztec diamonds

    Aztec Diamonds

    Aztec diamonds, random domino tilings whose ordered brick corners frame a disordered core bounded by the arctic circle.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Bog of Natural underneath Traveling — 100 bead loom patterns

    Bead loom patterns

    Bead loom patterns, rows of small beads in brick or peyote offset with a mirror-symmetric diamond motif.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When Familiar Alcove between Sounding — Bobbin Lace, 10 elements

    Bobbin Lace

    Bobbin lace, a Torchon strip of twisted thread pairs and pinholes with spiders and cloth-stitch diamonds.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When Unhurried Acre until Fashioning — 25 cosmati pavements

    Cosmati Pavements

    Cosmati pavements, a medieval quincunx of five guilloche-banded roundels linked by twisted bands, with triangle and square tesserae between.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Sedate Basin within the Melding — Ajiro, 61 elements

    Ajiro

    Ajiro, Japanese wickerwork of flat split-bamboo strips woven in twill steps, zigzags or nested diamonds.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When Meditative Bluff between Casting — Herringbone, 13 elements

    Herringbone

    Herringbone, a grid of V-shaped chevrons that alternate direction, echoing parquet floors and tweed.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Hardy Cape amid Pausing — 40 Archimedean tilings

    Archimedean Tilings

    Archimedean tilings, edge-to-edge patterns of two or more regular polygons with identical arrangements at every vertex.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When Homely Atoll nearby Rolling — Cane weaving, 47 elements

    Cane weaving

    Cane weaving, woven rattan strips in a round or angular frame, leaving hexagonal or octagonal holes.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What the Golden Aura beyond Breezing — 82 ogee patterns

    Ogee Patterns

    Ogee patterns, rows of S-curved arches that join into onion-shaped repeating cells.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Basin on Equable Depositing — Yagasane, 12 elements

    Yagasane

    Yagasane, the Japanese arrow-feather pattern of stacked chevrons in alternating columns.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Anchored Bay outside Carving — 100 palmettes

    Palmettes

    Palmettes, the Greek anthemion of fanned leaves above scrolling volutes, alone or alternating with lotus flowers.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What the Atoll till Equable Tilling — 140 ocean plait mats

    Ocean plait mats

    Ocean plait mats, a single rope woven into a flat rectangular or rounded mat with looped edges and over-under crossings.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Sandy Bog through Girding — 111 Art Deco ziggurats

    Art Deco Ziggurats

    Art Deco ziggurats, stepped towers with inset echo lines before a rising sunburst inside an arch or stepped frame.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What the Bluff above Known Enclosing — Uroko, 48 elements

    Uroko

    Uroko, the Japanese scale pattern of interlocking triangles in alternating rows.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Staid Canyon after Pausing — 93 chain-link fences

    Chain-link fences

    Chain-link fences, interlocking zigzag wires forming a diamond mesh, with hooked or barbed top ends.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Imperturbable Atoll Since the Calming — 100 Celtic key patterns

    Celtic Key Patterns

    Celtic key patterns, interlocking square double spirals whose narrow paths run diagonally inside a double-framed panel.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What Plain Basin During Standing — 50 molas

    Molas

    Molas, a bird, fish, turtle or cross motif ringed by concentric contour channels that fill a rectangular panel.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Bog near Devoted Anchoring — Guilloché, 25 elements

    Guilloché

    Guilloché rosettes, nested rings of regular wavy curves, as engraved on banknotes and watch dials.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Honeyed Brook round the Reckoning — 75 pentagon tilings

    Pentagon Tilings

    Pentagon tilings, round patches of congruent convex pentagons: halved hexagons, three-part pinwheels or six-petalled florets.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Sparkling Air within Arousing — 109 meanders

    Meanders

    Meanders, the Greek key pattern of a single line folding back on itself at right angles.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Evenhanded Alcove down the Plowing — 81 quilt blocks

    Quilt Blocks

    Quilt blocks such as Log Cabin, Ohio Star and Bear's Paw, pieced from squares, strips and triangles.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When Steady-handed Canyon Inside Reaching — Komezashi, 11 elements

    Komezashi

    Komezashi, rice-stitch sashiko: a grid of running stitches crossing at every point, overlaid with small diagonal crosses.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 4 December

  • What the Bluff amid Untroubled Harboring — Higaki, 25 elements

    Higaki

    Higaki, a diagonal cypress-fence weave of thin wooden slats passing over and under, with grain lines.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 4 December

  • What the Arch by Shaped Moving — 100 hat tilings

    Hat Tilings

    Hat tilings, patches of the aperiodic monotile found in 2023 that covers the plane without ever repeating.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 4 December

  • The Acre of Weighty nearby Steadying — Bargello, 94 elements

    Bargello

    Bargello, Florentine flame stitch with stacked bands of short vertical stitches following a repeating zigzag peak profile.

    All 7 on viewNewest leaves 4 December

  • When Furrowed Atoll among Reaching — 140 fleurs-de-lis

    Fleurs-de-lis

    Fleurs-de-lis, the stylised lily of heraldry, drawn in outline as a single emblem or repeating pattern.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 4 December

  • When Tawny Brook by Damming — Parang, 50 elements

    Parang

    Parang, Javanese batik of slanted S-shaped blades with curled ends lined up in diagonal bands.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 4 December

  • The Brook opposite Ponderous Forging — 144 pixel sprites

    Pixel Sprites

    Pixel sprites, mirror-symmetric little figures built from square pixels by a simple rule, like early video game characters.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 4 December

  • The Border among Earthy Bending — 65 crossword grids

    Crossword Grids

    Crossword grids with rotationally symmetric hatched blocks, every word at least three letters, and small numbered starting squares.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 4 December

  • The Muffled Bay upon Stirring — 25 voderberg spirals

    Voderberg Spirals

    Voderberg spirals, one hooked nine-sided tile repeated in congruent copies that wind outward in one or more spiral arms.

    All 6 on viewNewest leaves 4 December

  • When the Lowering Abyss on Petrifying — 25 sphinx tilings

    Sphinx Tilings

    Sphinx tiling, pentagonal six-triangle tiles where each sphinx divides into four smaller sphinxes, three of them mirrored.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 4 December

  • Flawless Alabaster behind Charming — 75 quatrefoils

    Quatrefoils

    Quatrefoils, four-lobed outlines made from semicircles on the sides of a square, repeated as a lattice.

    All 7 on viewNewest leaves 17 November

  • Ashlar courses

    Ashlar courses, dressed stone blocks with staggered joints and courses of varying height.

    None on view right now

  • Basketry Coils

    Basketry coils, baskets wound from rolled bundles in spirals, with patterns made by the binding stitches.

    None on view right now

  • Brick stitch

    Brick stitch, offset rows of stitches that form staircases and zigzags.

    None on view right now

  • Chevron parquets

    Chevron parquets, planks with pointed ends that form unbroken V-shaped lines.

    None on view right now

  • Cobblestone pavings

    Cobblestone pavings, rounded stones laid in fans, arcs and segmental curves.

    None on view right now

  • Crochet granny squares

    Crochet granny squares, rounds of double-crochet clusters with corner arches and gaps, joined into blankets.

    None on view right now

  • Dither matrices

    Dither matrices, ordered line rasters that suggest a gradient with strokes alone.

    None on view right now

  • Friendship bracelets

    Friendship bracelets, diagonal knot rows of embroidery thread that form chevrons, diamonds and stripes.

    None on view right now

  • Huck weaving

    Huck weaving, Swedish float stitches that build small diamonds and stepped borders.

    None on view right now

  • Kisrhombille tilings

    Kisrhombille tilings, fine triangle meshes in which each hexagon is cut into twelve right triangles.

    None on view right now

  • Leaded glass

    Leaded glass, lead-came lattices of diamonds, bands and roundels, with no pictorial subject.

    None on view right now

  • Macrame knotwork

    Macramé knotwork, square and rib knots arranged as diamonds and diagonal bars.

    None on view right now

  • Multiscale Truchet

    Multiscale Truchet tiles, arc tiles that subdivide into several sizes while their paths run on unbroken.

    None on view right now

  • Rep-tiles

    Rep-tiles, shapes that assemble from smaller copies of themselves.

    None on view right now

  • Seminole patchwork

    Seminole patchwork, strips of narrow fabric bands cut across and offset into stairs and diamonds.

    None on view right now

  • Triaxial weaves

    Triaxial weaves, three-way basket patterns in which bands cross at sixty degrees.

    None on view right now

  • Wallpaper groups

    Wallpaper groups, plane patterns from the 17 symmetry groups, built from a random motif that never forms a letter.

    None on view right now

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3D and perspective 61 forms

  • Lasting Canyon onto Bracing — 11 johnson solids

    Johnson Solids

    Johnson solids, convex polyhedra with regular faces such as cupolae, rotundas and bipyramids, hidden edges dashed.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Bog of Reasonable with Gathering — 44 loxodromes

    Loxodromes

    Loxodromes, rhumb lines that spiral from pole to pole across a sphere at a constant angle.

    All 12 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Alcove within Honest Lasting — 24 foam bubbles

    Foam Bubbles

    Foam bubbles, soap froth with Plateau borders where three walls always meet at 120 degrees.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • The Slender Brilliance alongside Dappling — 40 calabi–yau manifolds

    Calabi–Yau Manifolds

    Calabi–Yau cross-sections after Hanson, n² curved patches of z1ⁿ + z2ⁿ = 1 meeting in an intricate wireframe knot.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • What the Sandy Canyon with Pausing — 68 hyperboloids

    Hyperboloids

    Hyperboloids, curved surfaces made entirely of straight lines, like cooling towers.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Shaped Bay beside the Waiting — 61 wireframe shells

    Wireframe Shells

    Wireframe shells, shell-shaped surfaces built from coiled cones in wire outline.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • What the Pragmatic Arch among Following — 125 isometric stairs

    Isometric Stairs

    Isometric stairs, flights of steps and square landings turning around corners, drawn as hidden-line block models.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Golden Breath Since Unfurling — 7 wireframe spheres

    Wireframe Spheres

    Wireframe spheres of latitude and longitude lines, turned to random tilts.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • What the Burial underneath Gaunt Corroding — 7 tensegrity structures

    Tensegrity structures

    Tensegrity structures, rigid struts floating in a net of tension cables: three- and four-strut prisms, towers and the six-strut icosahedron.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • What the Atoll alongside Mellow Rolling — 88 flexagons

    Flexagons

    Flexagons, folded paper strips with a hexagonal outline and hidden faces.

    All 2 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Alcove with Russet Sounding — 93 geodesic domes

    Geodesic Domes

    Geodesic domes, spheres approximated by a network of triangles, as designed by Buckminster Fuller.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Border for Enduring Ripening — 35 superquadrics

    Superquadrics

    Superquadrics, superellipsoids ranging from rounded cubes through spheres and octahedra to concave stars, drawn with hidden lines.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Canyon of Mature into Growing — Wireframe Tori, 55 elements

    Wireframe Tori

    Wireframe tori, doughnut-shaped surfaces drawn as a net of rings.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Canyon alongside Time-honored Echoing — 50 Klein bottles

    Klein Bottles

    Klein bottles, closed surfaces without an inside or an outside, drawn as wireframes.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Known Cape throughout the Stirring — 76 polyhedron nets

    Polyhedron Nets

    Polyhedron nets, cubes, tetrahedra, octahedra, dodecahedra, icosahedra or prisms unfolded flat with dashed fold lines and glue tabs.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • When Carefree Alabaster over Unfolding — 119 conical shells

    Conical Shells

    Tower snail shells as a wireframe grid: a tapering spiral tube with spiral ribs, growth lines and aperture.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Acre into Durable Growing — 75 wireframe landscapes

    Wireframe Landscapes

    Wireframe landscapes, grids of hills and valleys seen in perspective, as in early computer graphics.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • When the True Brook through Calming — 100 sphere packings

    Sphere Packings

    Sphere packings, stacks of spheres in face-centred cubic and hexagonal arrangements, drawn as wireframe balls.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • Mature Basin despite the Resting — 25 prisms and antiprisms

    Prisms and Antiprisms

    Prisms and antiprisms with n-sided caps and bands of squares or triangles, some with star polygon caps.

    All 7 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • When Natural Bog Around Grounding — 51 Enneper surfaces

    Enneper Surfaces

    Enneper and Boy surfaces, self-intersecting minimal and immersed surfaces drawn as parametric wireframes of lines and rings.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • What Reasonable Bog among Gathering — 100 catenoids

    Catenoids

    Catenoids, soap films stretched between two rings, drawn as opaque wireframes with hidden lines and a narrow waist.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Derelict Boulder across the Suffocating — 56 utah teapots

    Utah Teapots

    Teapots after the Utah teapot of computer graphics, with lid, spout and handle as a wireframe of rings.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Natural Basin before Steadying — 45 turned vases

    Turned Vases

    Turned vases, smooth profiles revolved about an axis and drawn as wireframes of meridians and latitude circles.

    All 12 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Solemn-warm Atoll onto Curing — 71 dini's surfaces

    Dini's Surfaces

    Dini's surfaces, twisted funnels of constant negative curvature spiralling up from a thin stem, drawn with hidden lines.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Reasonable Brook from Dwelling — 63 catalan solids

    Catalan Solids

    Catalan solids, the duals of the Archimedean solids, with kite, rhombus, triangle or pentagon faces and hidden edges.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Weighty Acre into Dividing — 75 gyroid slices

    Gyroid Slices

    Gyroid slices, the triply periodic minimal surface cut into flat sections, showing labyrinthine bundles of wavy contour lines.

    All 12 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • What the Blossom before Aglow Fluttering — Space-Filling Polyhedra, 20 elements

    Space-Filling Polyhedra

    Space-filling polyhedra, truncated octahedra, rhombic dodecahedra and cubes stacked so they fill space without gaps.

    1 on viewLeaves 6 December

  • Worldly Basin by the Building — 74 polyhedron compounds

    Polyhedron Compounds

    Polyhedron compounds, interpenetrating solids such as five cubes inside a dodecahedron.

    1 on viewLeaves 6 December

  • Warm-hued Brook During the Enclosing — 55 isometric cubes

    Isometric Cubes

    Isometric cubes in a hexagonal arrangement, each drawn as three rhombi, as in the tumbling blocks pattern.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • Sure Canyon amid the Knotting — 35 tunnels

    Tunnels

    Tunnels of nested rings or frames that recede in perspective towards a vanishing point.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Bluff despite Distant Dividing — 53 spherical harmonics

    Spherical Harmonics

    Spherical harmonics, the lobed shapes of atomic orbitals and vibrating spheres, drawn as wireframes ringed with contour lines.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • Fathomed Bay without Pacing — 25 perspective grids

    Perspective Grids

    Perspective grids, floors of lines that converge on a vanishing point at the horizon.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Acre amid Timeworn Rounding — 125 wireframe cities

    Wireframe Cities

    Wireframe cities, blocks of towers drawn as hidden-line edge models in perspective, with floor lines and a street grid.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • When Dusty Bay nearby Curing — 36 impossible figures

    Impossible Figures

    Impossible figures like the Penrose triangle, drawn so they look solid yet could never be built.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Toasted Atoll in Bridging — 75 Steinmetz solids

    Steinmetz Solids

    Steinmetz solids, the intersections of two or three perpendicular cylinders, drawn as wireframes with the cylinders themselves.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • When Timeworn Bog upon Seasoning — 105 Möbius strips

    Möbius Strips

    Möbius strips, bands with a half twist that have only one side and one edge.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What Sedate Bog till Growing — 123 twisted columns

    Twisted Columns

    Twisted columns and prisms, polygonal or star-shaped, either smoothly turned or stacked from rotated slabs.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Breath amid Ambrosial Twinkling — 125 oloids

    Oloids

    Oloids, the convex hull of two perpendicular circles through each other's centres, drawn as a ruled surface.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What the Plain Border Around Depositing — 83 crystal lattices

    Crystal Lattices

    Crystal lattices, simple, body-centred and face-centred cubic, hexagonal and diamond structures, drawn as atoms joined by bonds.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What the Cape round Changeless Rooting — 62 dupin cyclides

    Dupin Cyclides

    Dupin cyclides, torus-like surfaces whose tube swells and narrows, drawn as a wireframe of circular curvature lines.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When Divine Breath During Elevating — 73 Archimedean solids

    Archimedean Solids

    Archimedean solids, convex polyhedra of regular polygons with identical vertices, drawn as rotated wireframes.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When Sound Atoll Around Pausing — 13 helicoids

    Helicoids

    Helicoids, ruled screw surfaces and spiral staircases swept by a line that turns while it climbs, drawn in perspective.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What Lean Alcove along Circling — 136 tesseracts

    Tesseracts

    Tesseracts, four-dimensional hypercubes whose sixteen vertices and thirty-two edges are rotated in 4D and projected to the plane.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What Imperturbable Atoll unto Laboring — 117 space frames

    Space frames

    Space frames, two-layer truss of rods and ball nodes in an offset square grid with diagonal braces, flat or vaulted.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Bluff across Genuine Keeping — 71 saddle surfaces

    Saddle Surfaces

    Saddle surfaces, hyperbolic paraboloids that curve up in one direction and down in the other.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Canyon Against Blended Working — Star Polyhedra, 121 elements

    Star Polyhedra

    Star polyhedra, an icosahedron, dodecahedron or octahedron with a spike raised on every face, drawn as wireframes.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When the Abiding Cape past Hedging — 6 pseudospheres

    Pseudospheres

    Pseudospheres, double trumpets of constant negative curvature with a sharp rim, netted by meridians or asymptotic lines.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When Textured Arch despite Extending — 91 Hopf fibrations

    Hopf Fibrations

    Hopf fibrations, interlocking circles on nested tori, the fibres of the three-sphere under stereographic projection.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Forthright Acre before the Pressing — 109 Platonic solids

    Platonic Solids

    Wireframes of the five Platonic solids and the tesseract, projected in perspective at random rotations.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Beam of Fluttering over Lilting — Zonohedra, 115 elements

    Zonohedra

    Zonohedra, convex solids built from parallelogram zones such as the rhombic dodecahedron and triacontahedron, hidden edges dashed.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Ravaged Cavern before Brooding — 120 4d polytopes

    4D Polytopes

    4D polytopes, perspective projections of the 24-cell, 600-cell and 120-cell as wireframes of straight edges.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Brick arches

    Brick arches, built from voussoirs, as segmental and pointed arches with a keystone.

    None on view right now

  • Coffered domes

    Coffered domes in plan, with sunken panels that shrink toward the centre.

    None on view right now

  • Colonnades

    Colonnades, rows of columns in perspective with an entablature and shadow lines, without carved capitals.

    None on view right now

  • Isometric Mazes

    Isometric mazes, labyrinths of stairs and walls seen in isometric projection.

    None on view right now

  • Joinery Joints

    Joinery joints, dovetails, halved joints and mortises shown as exploded drawings.

    None on view right now

  • Kaleidocycles

    Kaleidocycles, rings of tetrahedra that can be turned inside out, shown as wireframes.

    None on view right now

  • Rib Vaults

    Rib vaults in plan view: ribs, keystones and the curved webs between them.

    None on view right now

  • Roof Trusses

    Roof trusses in long and cross section, with rafters, purlins and struts.

    None on view right now

  • Spiral Staircases

    Spiral staircases seen from above and from the side, with treads, a central column and a handrail.

    None on view right now

  • Voxel Terrain

    Voxel terrain, landscapes of stacked cubes drawn as edge lines only.

    None on view right now

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Science and technology 117 forms

  • When Frugal Basin under Remaining — 99 dendrograms

    Dendrograms

    Dendrograms of hierarchical clustering, trees of right-angled joins drawn in a linear or radial layout.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Rustic Bog over Hedging — 74 floor plans

    Floor Plans

    Architectural floor plans with double-line walls, divided rooms, doors with swing arcs, windows and a staircase.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Temperate Bay alongside Layering — 85 newton's rings

    Newton's Rings

    Newton's rings, interference rings between a lens and a flat plate, crowding toward the edge.

    All 2 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Cold Abyss above Unmaking — 137 string instruments

    String Instruments

    String instruments, harps, lyres, psalteries and zithers drawn flat with frames, soundboxes, pegs and rows of taut strings.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Beckoning Blossom into Caressing — Gyroscope Precession, 63 elements

    Gyroscope Precession

    Gyroscope precession, the traces of a spinning axis with precession and nutation nested like rosettes.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • Rhapsodic Bloom till the Cascading — 53 sankey flows

    Sankey flows

    Sankey flows, bands that split and merge, with widths that show the amount carried.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • Slow Basin toward Learning — 33 cycloidal drives

    Cycloidal drives

    Cycloidal drives, a lobed disc, a ring of pins and the path of the eccentric motion.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • Neutral Bay alongside Spinning — 2 candlestick series

    Candlestick series

    Candlestick series, rows of body-and-wick bars in rising and falling runs, without axis labels.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • When Opalescent Brilliance after Streaming — 20 faraday waves

    Faraday Waves

    Faraday waves, standing wave patterns on a vibrating liquid, as squares, stripes or hexagons.

    All 2 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • When Kindly Bog opposite Bending — 75 punch cards

    Punch cards

    Punch cards, rectangular data cards with a clipped corner and columns of Hollerith holes, plus round-hole and Jacquard loom variants.

    All 7 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • What the Angelic Aura by Exalting — 23 fan vaults

    Fan Vaults

    Fan vaults, ribs that spread in cone shapes from the supports across a ceiling.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • Meditative Brook along the Enduring — 117 triangulation nets

    Triangulation Nets

    Triangulation nets, survey networks of triangles spread over terrain, with baselines and stations.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • The Breath beneath Prismatic Enrapturing — 14 vortex streets

    Vortex Streets

    Vortex streets, the staggered rows of counter-rotating eddies that form behind an obstacle.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • The Faithful Cape down Filling — 96 radar charts

    Radar charts

    Radar charts, web diagrams with axes, rings and overlapping filled areas.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • The Numbing Brine Since Dimming — 23 armillary spheres

    Armillary Spheres

    Armillary spheres, nested rings for horizon, meridian, equator, ecliptic, tropics and polar circles around a tilted axis on a stand.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • What Grainy Bluff past Lining — 23 flight routes

    Flight Routes

    Great-circle flight routes between airports, drawn over a graticule on an orthographic globe or a plate carrée map.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Self-possessed Basin after the Guarding — 96 solar eclipses

    Solar eclipses

    Solar eclipses, a dark disc with corona streamers and a string of bright beads at its edge.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • Stocky Bay Inside the Changing — 87 sewing patterns

    Sewing Patterns

    Sewing pattern pieces such as bodice, sleeve, skirt panel and collar, with dashed seam lines, grain arrows, notches and darts.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Bay along Patinaed Collecting — 88 bicycle wheels

    Bicycle Wheels

    Bicycle wheels with a double-circle rim, a hub with two flanges and radial or crossed spoke patterns.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Late Arch by the Spreading — 78 billiard trajectories

    Billiard Trajectories

    Billiard trajectories, the paths of a ball reflecting inside polygons, ellipses and stadium shapes.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • When Centered Canyon for Engraving — 44 treemaps

    Treemaps

    Treemaps, nested rectangles that divide an area into shares.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • The Earthy Border throughout the Plowing — 101 phase portraits

    Phase portraits

    Phase portraits, trajectories of pendulum, Van der Pol, predator-prey and linear systems drawn as evenly spaced flow lines with arrowheads.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • When Rich Atoll in Dividing — 43 accretion disks

    Accretion disks

    Accretion disks, gas discs around a central object in dense rings and spiral arms.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • Patinaed Brook nearby the Enclosing — 12 protractors and rulers

    Protractors and rulers

    Protractors and rulers, semicircle and full-circle protractors, centimetre and inch rulers, and set squares with finely graduated scales.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • What the Grainy Canyon into Rooting — 112 clock faces

    Clock Faces

    Clock faces with hour marks and hands, each set to a random time.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Arch until Toasted Shifting — 32 power pylons

    Power Pylons

    Lattice power pylons with cross-braced towers, cross-arms and insulator strings, linked by sagging catenary wires.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Earthen Alcove despite Stretching — 50 lens ray diagrams

    Lens ray diagrams

    Lens ray diagrams, textbook constructions with lens or mirror, focal points, object and image arrows and three principal rays.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Permanent Canyon between the Forming — 56 windmills

    Windmills

    Windmill with four lattice sails on a tapering tower or a post-mill trestle, standing on a ground line.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Atoll of Mossbacked up Tracing — 66 pipe isometrics

    Pipe Isometrics

    Piping isometrics, single-line pipe runs along three isometric axes with elbows, tees, bow-tie valves and flange marks.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • What the Forthright Brook among Spinning — 7 street networks

    Street networks

    Street networks, grown road layouts with squares, ring roads and dead ends, without any names.

    1 on viewLeaves 6 December

  • Settled Canyon among Plowing — 70 parallel coordinates

    Parallel coordinates

    Parallel coordinates, polylines across parallel axes that gather in bundles and crossings.

    1 on viewLeaves 6 December

  • When Late Basin beneath Depositing — 92 tonnetz lattices

    Tonnetz Lattices

    Tonnetz lattices, the triangular grid of pitch relations with linked triads, without note names.

    1 on viewLeaves 6 December

  • Pearlescent Breath amid Flecking — 17 standing strings

    Standing Strings

    Standing strings, vibrating strings with their first harmonics, laid over one another in phases.

    1 on viewLeaves 6 December

  • What the Weighty Bog Against Circling — Newton's Cradle, 108 elements

    Newton's Cradle

    Newton's cradles, rows of balls on strings in different phases of the swing, seen from the side.

    1 on viewLeaves 6 December

  • What the Abyss across Shattered Starving — 100 double pendulum trails

    Double Pendulum Trails

    Double pendulum trails, the chaotic paths of a two-armed pendulum that fill the page densely.

    1 on viewLeaves 6 December

  • The Antique Alcove Against the Changing — 54 paper lanterns

    Paper lanterns

    Paper lantern with horizontal ribs, pleated accordion folds or meridian ribs, hanging cord, end caps and a tassel.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • Earthbound Border unto the Embedding — 75 sail plans

    Sail plans

    Sail plans of ships, masts, yards and sail areas, without any labels.

    1 on viewLeaves 6 December

  • What Stable Bay under Bending — 64 circuit traces

    Circuit Traces

    Circuit traces, paths that turn only at right angles, like routing on a printed circuit board.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Alabaster Aura from Enchanting — 73 water wheels

    Water Wheels

    Water wheels, mill wheels with paddles and spokes seen from the side.

    1 on viewLeaves 6 December

  • The Acre of Unflappable under Kindling — 41 pendulum waves

    Pendulum Waves

    Pendulum waves, a row of pendulums whose phases drift apart and back into wave patterns.

    1 on viewLeaves 6 December

  • Intrinsic Acre amid Seasoning — 100 Smith charts

    Smith Charts

    Smith charts, the unit-circle diagram of constant-resistance circles and reactance arcs used to read impedances in radio engineering.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • White Air upon the Brightening — 26 airfoils

    Airfoils

    Airfoils, a Joukowski wing profile with chord and dashed camber line, alone in streamlines or stacked by thickness.

    All 12 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Basin of Level-headed amidst Melting — 5 feynman diagrams

    Feynman diagrams

    Feynman diagrams, particle lines with arrows, wavy photons and looping gluons meeting at vertices, sometimes with loop corrections.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • What the Atoll over Frugal Carving — 62 molecules

    Molecules

    Molecule diagrams of fused hexagonal rings with alternating double bonds and short side chains, like structural formulae.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Alcove along Grainy Measuring — 25 weaving drafts

    Weaving Drafts

    Weaving drafts with threading, tie-up, treadling and drawdown grids for plain, twill, herringbone and satin weaves.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Cavern opposite Dusky Submerging — 50 nomograms

    Nomograms

    Nomograms with three parallel logarithmic scales and straight reading lines, or log-log and semi-log graph paper.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • What the Dusky-gold Bluff in Carrying — 75 sundials

    Sundials

    Sundial faces, horizontal or vertical, with hour lines computed for a latitude, Roman numerals, gnomon and date curves.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Idyllic Candle upon Spiraling — 115 logic diagrams

    Logic diagrams

    Logic diagrams, layered networks of AND, OR, XOR, NAND and NOR gates joined by right-angled wires.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • Fixed Atoll with Cooling — Water Interference, 11 elements

    Water Interference

    Interference patterns of wavy concentric rings around two offset centres, like overlapping ripples on water.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • What the Arch despite Muffled Changing — 31 birdcages

    Birdcages

    Birdcages, wire cages with vertical bars, hoops, perches and a door, in dome, bell or pagoda shapes.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When Constant Brook down Harboring — 121 escapements

    Escapements

    Escapements, a toothed escape wheel engaged by a pallet anchor or Swiss lever with fork and balance.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Intact Basin over Holding — 41 tower cranes

    Tower cranes

    Tower cranes, lattice masts with jibs, counterweights, stay cables, trolleys and hanging loads, some with luffing jibs.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Aloft Blossom near the Greeting — 137 parasols

    Parasols

    Parasol seen from above with scalloped edge and ribs, or from the side with domed canopy, shaft and crook handle.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Dire Cairn beyond Yielding — 125 orbital transfers

    Orbital transfers

    Orbital transfers, Hohmann and bi-elliptic transfer ellipses between concentric planetary orbits, with burn arrows and planet markers.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Ingrained Brook Against the Cradling — 86 truss bridges

    Truss Bridges

    Side views of truss bridges in Warren, Pratt, Howe and K patterns, with chords, diagonals and abutments.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What the Trusty Acre above Calming — 127 polar plots

    Polar plots

    Polar plots, antenna-style directivity patterns such as cardioids, limacons and roses over a polar grid with degree scale.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When Equable Alcove near Mending — 26 Chladni figures

    Chladni Figures

    Chladni figures, the node lines of a vibrating plate where scattered sand gathers.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When the Strong Brook till Kindling — Radar Sweep, 63 elements

    Radar Sweep

    Radar displays of concentric range rings crossed by a few sweep lines at random angles.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Settled Canyon by the Opening — 48 gears

    Gears

    Toothed gear wheel outlines with a hub circle, in varying sizes and tooth counts.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What the Abyss before Fallen Demolishing — 43 cams and followers

    Cams and followers

    Cams and followers, an eccentric cam disc with a spring-loaded follower and its displacement diagram.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Earthen Bluff before the Brewing — 22 map graticules

    Map graticules

    Map graticules, latitude and longitude grids in ten projections from orthographic and stereographic globes to Mollweide, Equal Earth and Mercator.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What the Solid Brook under Bordering — 74 bolts and nuts

    Bolts and nuts

    Bolts and nuts, hex bolts and nuts drawn as technical views with threads, chamfers, washers and centre lines.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Hushed Boulder opposite Scarring — 98 network graphs

    Network Graphs

    Network graphs of nodes and connecting edges, like diagrams of social or computer networks.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Bay of Anchored near Brewing — 62 springs

    Springs

    Springs, compression and extension coils in side view with end loops, and flat clock springs as Archimedean spirals.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Sagacious Canyon down the Settling — 26 circuit schematics

    Circuit schematics

    Circuit schematics, ladder networks of resistors, coils, capacitors and diodes between a voltage source and ground.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When Earnest Brook on Seasoning — 75 astrolabes

    Astrolabes

    Astrolabes with a degree-scaled mater, a stereographic plate of altitude circles and azimuth lines, and a rotating rete.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Forged Arch despite Circling — 54 slide rules

    Slide rules

    Slide rules, linear and circular rules with logarithmic scales, a shifted slide, tick marks, numerals and a hairline cursor.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What the Alabaster in Gleamy Mellowing — 9 orreries

    Orreries

    Orrery, a mechanical planetary model from above: sun, concentric orbits, support arms, moons, a ringed planet and zodiac ring.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What the Bog outside Trusty Hedging — 20 ferris wheels

    Ferris wheels

    Ferris wheels, front views with spoked rim, hanging gondolas and an A-frame support standing on the ground.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Arch with Composed Curing — 16 wind roses

    Wind roses

    Wind roses, polar frequency diagrams with ringed scales and direction bars stacked in wind speed classes around a calm centre.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Rhapsodic Breath into Ennobling — 100 jansen linkages

    Jansen Linkages

    Jansen linkages, the walking-leg mechanism with pin joints, crank circle, fixed pivots and the flat-bottomed foot path.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Certain Brook beyond the Tying — 57 sound waves

    Sound Waves

    Sound-wave bars of random height, mirrored on both sides of a horizontal axis like an equaliser display.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Acre Around Olive Curving — 94 hot-air balloons

    Hot-air balloons

    Hot-air balloon with a gored envelope, banded or zigzag panels, skirt, burner flame, rigging lines and a woven basket.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What the Canyon past Level-headed Ripening — 99 suspension bridges

    Suspension bridges

    Suspension bridges, side views of cable-suspended and cable-stayed spans with towers, hangers, stays, piers and water.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What the Bloom till Scintillant Enlivening — 126 ball bearings

    Ball bearings

    Ball bearings shown from the front and in axial section, with ringed races, balls, cage and hatching.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Antique Bog by Returning — 75 hull lines

    Hull lines

    Hull lines, a ship's sheer plan, half-breadth plan and body plan drawn from one hull with stations, waterlines and buttocks.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Untroubled Canyon circa Curving — 50 chain drives

    Chain drives

    Chain drives, two toothed sprockets joined by a roller chain with link plates, pins and hubs.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 4 December

  • Intrinsic Canyon with Pressing — 118 seismographs

    Seismographs

    Seismographs, strip-chart traces of ground motion with quiet noise, then P, S and surface wave arrivals decaying away.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 4 December

  • The Arch by Amber-toned Lasting — 11 metro maps

    Metro Maps

    Metro maps of lines that run at 45 and 90 degrees between their stations.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 4 December

  • The Alcove over Steady-handed Engraving — 107 staves

    Staves

    Musical staves of five lines, scattered with notes like a page of a score.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 4 December

  • Patient Arch above Spinning — 116 track plans

    Track plans

    Track plans, railway stations, yards, junctions and turntables drawn with double rails, sleepers, turnouts, platforms and buffer stops.

    All 7 on viewNewest leaves 17 November

  • Aqueduct Arcades

    Aqueduct arcades, tiered rows of arches crossing a valley on piers of graded span.

    None on view right now

  • Arc diagrams

    Arc diagrams, semicircles over a line that join points, in many sizes.

    None on view right now

  • Arch bridges

    Arch bridges with piers and spandrels, single or in a row across a valley.

    None on view right now

  • Bump charts

    Bump charts, crossing rank lines with rounded joints where the positions change.

    None on view right now

  • Cable-Stayed Bridges

    Cable-stayed bridges, pylons with fanned cables, in side view or from above.

    None on view right now

  • Canal locks

    Canal locks in long section, with gates and water levels in several stages.

    None on view right now

  • Chord diagrams

    Chord diagrams, ribbons joining points on a circle, without any labels.

    None on view right now

  • Cosmic Web

    The cosmic web, filaments, nodes and voids that make up the large-scale structure in which galaxies lie.

    None on view right now

  • Diffraction Rings

    Diffraction rings, concentric Airy-style rings from a circular aperture and straight fringes from a slit, drawn as lines.

    None on view right now

  • Euclidean Rhythms

    Euclidean rhythms, beats spread evenly around a circle and joined into polygons.

    None on view right now

  • Gravitational lenses

    Gravitational lenses, Einstein rings and arcs formed from background light by a mass in front.

    None on view right now

  • Gridshells

    Gridshells, lattices of bent laths that curve into vaulted halls.

    None on view right now

  • Harmonic Series

    Harmonic series, string lengths and node points of the overtones, drawn as staggered divisions.

    None on view right now

  • Harp frames

    Harp frames, strung instruments with curved pillars, tuning pins and stretched strings.

    None on view right now

  • Lunar craters

    Lunar craters with raised rims, central peaks and ejecta rays, overlapping one another.

    None on view right now

  • Marble runs

    Marble runs, tracks with ramps, spirals and switches, seen from the side.

    None on view right now

  • Music Box Cylinders

    Music box cylinders, pins on an unrolled drum forming a dot pattern that is not any known piece.

    None on view right now

  • Nebula filaments

    Nebula filaments, thin winding bundles of gas lines around darker voids.

    None on view right now

  • Organ pipes

    Organ pipes, ranks of pipes graded in length, with mouths and feet.

    None on view right now

  • Piano Rolls

    Piano rolls, perforated paper strips drawn as bars on staff lines, without any specific tune.

    None on view right now

  • Planetary gears

    Planetary gears with sun, planets and ring gear, in section and plan view.

    None on view right now

  • Polyrhythm Circles

    Polyrhythm circles, nested rings with different beat counts whose polygons overlap.

    None on view right now

  • Potential Flows

    Potential flows, streamlines around cylinders and airfoil profiles, with stagnation points and circulation.

    None on view right now

  • Precessing Orbits

    Precessing orbits, rosette paths in which the ellipse turns a little further with every revolution.

    None on view right now

  • Rainbow Geometry

    Rainbow geometry, the ray paths inside a water drop and the arcs they produce.

    None on view right now

  • Record grooves

    Record grooves, a spiral groove with gaps between tracks and a run-out groove.

    None on view right now

  • Roche potentials

    Roche potentials, equipotential lines of a binary star with its Lagrange points and the Roche limit.

    None on view right now

  • Rope Twists

    Rope twists, laid ropes of strands and yarns, in cross section and along their length.

    None on view right now

  • Solar Prominences

    Solar prominences, arches of plasma that rise along magnetic field lines above the edge of the Sun.

    None on view right now

  • Spacetime Grids

    Spacetime grids, a curved grid like the embedding diagram of space around several masses.

    None on view right now

  • Streamgraphs

    Streamgraphs, winding bands that swell and thin like a river made of data series.

    None on view right now

  • Tensile Roofs

    Tensile roofs, tent structures as saddle surfaces with cable nets, masts and edge cables.

    None on view right now

  • Tide Charts

    Tide charts, overlaid tidal curves combining lunar and solar components.

    None on view right now

  • Tissot Indicatrices

    Tissot indicatrices, a map graticule with distortion ellipses that show how a projection deforms circles.

    None on view right now

  • Venn diagrams

    Venn diagrams, overlapping circles and ellipses showing every intersection region, unlabelled.

    None on view right now

  • Wind chimes

    Wind chimes, tubes or rods of different lengths hanging from threads, joined in a ring.

    None on view right now

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Nature 115 forms

  • What Exhausted Boulder beneath Plaguing — 72 succulents

    Succulents

    Succulent rosettes seen from above, overlapping leaves in a golden-angle spiral, as in echeveria, agave or jade types.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Copper Brook among the Learning — 9 river meanders

    River Meanders

    River meanders, a winding river drawn as a double bank line, with cut-off bends left behind as oxbow lakes.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Acre upon Sedate Echoing — 94 meteor showers

    Meteor Showers

    Meteor showers, tapered streaks radiating from one radiant over a night sky with stars, a constellation and a hilly horizon.

    All 12 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • What the Canyon by Staid Knotting — 81 trilobites

    Trilobites

    Trilobites, three-lobed extinct arthropods with head shield, segmented body and tail shield, seen from above.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • What the Incandescent Brilliance without Blossoming — 50 bronchial trees

    Bronchial Trees

    Bronchial trees, airways that halve regularly at each branch and taper toward the ends.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • What Settled Bluff toward Settling — 38 octopuses

    Octopuses

    Octopuses, a rounded head with two eyes and eight tapering arms curling at the tips, each lined with suckers.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Cheerful Candle till the Unfurling — 137 cattail reeds

    Cattail Reeds

    Cattail reeds, stems and bulrush heads standing in groups and mirrored in the water.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • The Humble Canyon throughout Closing — 79 mushrooms

    Mushrooms

    Mushrooms in side view, domed caps with gills, stems, rings and spots, growing alone or in small groups.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • What Sundrenched Brilliance round Bedazzling — 128 weeping willows

    Weeping willows

    Weeping willows, a trunk and arching limbs under a dome of long hanging branchlets with leaf strokes.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • What Organic Arch During Rounding — 50 crystal druses

    Crystal druses

    Crystal druses, crystal points growing from a common base, drawn as outlines only.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • When Copper Alcove in Lodging — Double Helix, 50 elements

    Double Helix

    Two intertwined helices, the twisted-ladder shape known from the structure of DNA.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Full-bodied Bay within the Learning — 71 compound eyes

    Compound eyes

    Compound eyes, hexagonal lenses on a spherical cap, foreshortened toward the rim.

    All 2 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Lasting Acre During the Channeling — 100 dragonfly wings

    Dragonfly Wings

    Dragonfly wings, main veins from the base, a pterostigma near the tip and a dense net of polygonal cells.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • What the Even Arch on Lodging — 87 fish skeletons

    Fish Skeletons

    Fish skeletons, lateral views with skull, vertebral column, ribs, spines and fan-shaped ray fins ending in a tail fin.

    All 12 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • What the Burnished Bay Since Fashioning — 150 comets

    Comets

    Comet, a small nucleus with coma arcs, a curved fan-shaped dust tail and a straight wavy ion tail.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Sensible Bog after Brewing — 115 cell colonies

    Cell Colonies

    Cell colonies, clusters of cells under the microscope that divide, press together and leave gaps.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • When Ocherous Basin on Collecting — Cacti, 58 elements

    Cacti

    Cacti, columnar saguaros with arms, ribbed barrel cacti in pots and prickly pear pads, all studded with spine clusters.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • When the Oaken Basin off Reaching — 58 sun paths

    Sun Paths

    Sun paths, daily arcs of the sun over the horizon through the year, layered and unlabelled.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • The Bay behind Steadfast Dividing — 38 oak leaves

    Oak Leaves

    Oak leaves, lobed leaves with veins, scattered loosely across the page.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • What Dusky-gold Brook amidst Echoing — 134 mushroom gills

    Mushroom Gills

    Mushroom gills, the radial lamellae under a mushroom cap seen from below, in several lengths around the stem and rim.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Mossbacked Bog betwixt the Lining — 91 dandelions

    Dandelions

    Dandelion seed heads, fine radiating stalks with small tufts at their ends.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • When Devoted Bog Since Buffering — 75 retrograde loops

    Retrograde Loops

    Retrograde loops, the looping paths planets trace in the sky as the Earth overtakes them.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • Vintage Arch Since the Embedding — 27 lenticular clouds

    Lenticular Clouds

    Lenticular clouds, lens-shaped clouds stacked like plates over mountain ridges, with smooth outlines.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • What the Bog within Leisurely Calming — 50 portolan webs

    Portolan Webs

    Portolan webs, networks of bearing lines as on old sea charts, with junction points and coastal hatching.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • The Tranquil Atoll from Bracing — 96 jet streams

    Jet Streams

    Jet streams, meandering high-altitude currents with loops and pinched-off eddies.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • The Brine upon Sinister Graying — 120 cumulus clouds

    Cumulus clouds

    Cumulus clouds, a flat base with billowing towers drawn as the outer arcs of overlapping circles.

    All 12 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • When the Frank Bay beneath Seasoning — 126 fern fiddleheads

    Fern Fiddleheads

    Fern fiddleheads, unrolling fern tips drawn as spirals in rows.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • What the Stoic Brook underneath Resting — 106 nests

    Nests

    Nests, shallow bowls woven from many curved twigs with a rim of loose sticks and sometimes a few eggs.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • What Warm Alcove opposite Fitting — 64 lava flows

    Lava flows

    Lava flows, solidified streams with ropy folds, cracks and branching channels.

    1 on viewLeaves 7 December

  • The Basin past Fathomed Keeping — Jellyfish, 21 elements

    Jellyfish

    Jellyfish with domed bells and long tentacles trailing and drifting below them.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • When Salted Alcove round Housing — 23 ginkgo leaves

    Ginkgo Leaves

    Ginkgo leaves, fan-shaped with fine veins radiating from the stalk.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • What the Candle nearby Light Exhaling — 75 constellations

    Constellations

    Constellations, stars of different sizes joined by thin lines into star figures.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • When the Blended Arch among Tending — 118 cone shell patterns

    Cone Shell Patterns

    Cone Shell Patterns, rows of tent-like triangles on a conical shell, grown line by line like a cellular automaton.

    All 12 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • When the Worldly Alcove unto Returning — 50 ant tunnels

    Ant tunnels

    Ant tunnels, branching passages and chambers in cross section.

    1 on viewLeaves 6 December

  • The Moonlit Beam amidst Polishing — 15 peacock feathers

    Peacock Feathers

    Peacock feathers, a slender quill with fine barbs on both sides and a concentric eye near the tip.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Breath of Harmonious Against Shining — 75 bird murmurations

    Bird murmurations

    Bird murmurations, dense swinging starling flocks drawn as stroke trails.

    1 on viewLeaves 6 December

  • The Sagacious Brook underneath the Calming — 53 sea urchins

    Sea Urchins

    Sea urchins, round shells bristling with long radiating spines in every direction.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • What the Unshaken Canyon upon Carrying — Rain, 58 elements

    Rain

    Rain, slanting showers of short strokes above flat concentric puddle rings on the ground.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Bedrock off Thunderous Fracturing — 100 chrysanthemums

    Chrysanthemums

    Chrysanthemums from above, dense rings of narrow curling ray petals that shorten toward a small centre.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • Dignified Alcove into the Opening — 140 pollen grains

    Pollen Grains

    Pollen grains, spiny, furrowed or pore-studded spheres seen in perspective, with cone spines, ringed pores and meridian furrows.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • When Known Border Around Stretching — Bamboo, 44 elements

    Bamboo

    Bamboo stalks with jointed segments and slender leaves, in the manner of ink painting.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Toasted Basin upon Plowing — 124 nautilus shells

    Nautilus Shells

    Nautilus shells, logarithmic spirals divided into chambers that grow outwards.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • What the Aurora underneath Sun-dappled Inspiring — 73 cherry blossoms

    Cherry Blossoms

    Cherry blossom branches, a bending twig with five-petalled notched flowers, buds and a few drifting petals.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • Ethereal Bloom off Embellishing — 109 neurons

    Neurons

    Neurons, nerve cells with a soma, recursively branching dendrites and a long axon ending in a small terminal tree.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Layered Cape through the Enduring — 26 Hokusai waves

    Hokusai Waves

    Breaking waves with curling crests, after Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • When Lean Bog through Lodging — 73 lichens

    Lichens

    Lichens, clustered crustose growth rings with lobed margins and fruiting discs, beside rosettes of rounded foliose lobes.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • When the Sound Basin by Damming — 98 ringed planets

    Ringed Planets

    Ringed planet, a banded globe circled by tilted elliptical rings with a gap and occasional small moons.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Cool Blaze atop Elevating — 49 monstera leaves

    Monstera Leaves

    Monstera leaves, heart-shaped blades with a midrib, curved side veins, deep marginal slits and oval holes.

    All 7 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Ingrained Atoll through Fitting — 73 palm fronds

    Palm Fronds

    Palm fronds and palm trees: feathered leaflets along an arching rachis, fan-shaped leaves, and trees with ringed trunks.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When the Wise Bluff alongside Shifting — 4 butterflies

    Butterflies

    Butterflies, symmetrical wings with branching veins, eyespots, marginal spots and a segmented body with clubbed antennae.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Atoll of Muted-gold above Buffering — 96 snowflakes

    Snowflakes

    Snowflakes with sixfold symmetry, branches repeated around a centre like ice crystals.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Forged Canyon down the Casting — 55 spider webs

    Spider Webs

    Spider webs of radial threads crossed by a spiral of capture silk.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When the Silken Candle onto Springing — 25 tree rings

    Tree Rings

    Tree rings, irregular concentric growth lines like the cross-section of a trunk.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Burial alongside Decayed Forsaking — 40 sand ripples

    Sand Ripples

    Sand ripples, wavy parallel ridges left by wind or water on a dune or shore.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Earthbound Alcove of Knotting — 51 auroras

    Auroras

    Auroras, folding curtains of fine vertical rays that fade upward, layered above a low horizon with stars.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When Warm Acre circa Dividing — 57 corals

    Corals

    Corals, branching staghorn colonies with rounded tips and polyp cups, or brain-coral domes covered in labyrinthine meanders.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Solid Canyon beyond the Persisting — Ivy, 135 elements

    Ivy

    Ivy vines, meandering stems with alternating lobed leaves, veins and short side shoots, overlapping leaves hidden correctly.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What the Brook down Old-fashioned Tying — 79 feathers

    Feathers

    Feathers, a central shaft with rows of fine barbs on each side.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What the Bay for Devoted Tying — 110 peonies

    Peonies

    Peonies from above, layers of ruffled petals overlapping inward around a centre of stamens.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Mirthful Blossom atop Whirling — 35 star trails

    Star Trails

    Star trails, concentric arcs of different radius traced by stars circling a celestial pole, sometimes above a horizon.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Crestfallen Burial nearby Despairing — 35 lotus flowers

    Lotus Flowers

    Lotus flowers, layered rings of pointed petals with midribs seen from the side or above, sometimes with a notched pad.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Seasoned Canyon down the Earning — 50 grass tufts

    Grass Tufts

    Tufts of grass, bundles of curved blades rising from a common base.

    All 7 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Aglow Breath down Feathering — 97 sea anemones

    Sea Anemones

    Sea anemones, a column with a wide oral disc crowned by rings of tapering tentacles that sway and droop.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Trusty Bog upon the Seasoning — 41 fingerprints

    Fingerprints

    Fingerprint patterns of whorls and loops made of closely spaced ridges, with occasional small breaks.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Alcove of Tilled of Forming — 38 tornadoes

    Tornadoes

    Tornadoes, a wide wall cloud over a sinuous funnel of spiral contour lines and a swirling dust cloud.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When Practical Bog between Measuring — 33 agate bands

    Agate Bands

    Agate bands, nested wavy concentric contours in the manner of a polished agate cross-section, ending in a crystal-toothed core.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When Piteous Abyss nearby Sundering — 51 diatoms

    Diatoms

    Diatoms, microscopic algae with radially symmetric silica shells, drawn as pored rings, ribs and spines, or as elongated forms.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Cave of Aged During Trampling — 76 moon phases

    Moon Phases

    Moon phases in a row, arc or circle, each drawn as the lit shape alone, hatched or with craters.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When Sienna Bog alongside Finding — 62 lightning bolts

    Lightning Bolts

    Lightning bolts, jagged branching discharges that split as they strike downwards.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Arch amid Vintage Balancing — 46 root systems

    Root Systems

    Root systems grown by space colonisation, branching downwards towards scattered attractor points.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When Bountiful Aura above Fluttering — 32 scallop shells

    Scallop Shells

    Scallop shells, fan-shaped valves with radial ribs, scalloped margins, growth lines and small ears at the hinge.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Dazzling Alabaster before Enlivening — Wheat, 68 elements

    Wheat

    Wheat, sheaves of bearded ears bound with a band or standing in a field row, with curling leaves.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What Brilliant Blaze via Delighting — 20 beetles

    Beetles

    Beetles, bilateral top views with ribbed wing cases, pronotum, jointed legs and antennae, from scarabs to stag and ladybird types.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Ample Brook from Cycling — 31 ammonites

    Ammonites

    Ammonites, a planispiral shell of logarithmic whorls with forked radial ribs and frilled suture lines across the chambers.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When the Centered Bog round Waiting — 33 leaf veins

    Leaf Veins

    Leaf veins, a midrib with branching side veins inside a leaf outline.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Ocherous Acre Since the Tying — 113 spiral galaxies

    Spiral Galaxies

    Spiral galaxies, logarithmic arms of short strokes around a dense core, sometimes with a central bar.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Brook under Reflective Toiling — Phyllotaxis, 75 elements

    Phyllotaxis

    Phyllotaxis, points set at the golden angle the way seeds sit in a sunflower head.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When the Constant Bog amid Harboring — 144 seahorses

    Seahorses

    Seahorses, an upright body of bony rings with a snouted head, dorsal fin and a spirally curled tail.

    All 7 on viewNewest leaves 4 December

  • Pellucid Breath beneath Blossoming — Starfish, 9 elements

    Starfish

    Starfish, five slightly curved arms with a central groove and rows of tube feet or tubercles.

    All 7 on viewNewest leaves 4 December

  • The Canyon on Leathery Climbing — Kelp, 28 elements

    Kelp

    Kelp, wavy fronds rising from a clawed holdfast, with long ruffled blades on small round gas bladders.

    All 7 on viewNewest leaves 4 December

  • Ordinary Bluff over the Balancing — Bonsai, 40 elements

    Bonsai

    Bonsai, a gnarled curving trunk in a shallow pot, carrying cloud-like pads of foliage on layered branches.

    All 6 on viewNewest leaves 17 November

  • Acorns

    Acorns, nuts with caps and stalks, arranged in rows and clusters.

    None on view right now

  • Animal Stripes

    Animal stripes, striped skin and fur patterns made of growing, forking bands.

    None on view right now

  • Archipelagos

    Archipelagos, island groups drawn as outlines with contour lines, graded by size and strung in chains.

    None on view right now

  • Cloud Streets

    Cloud streets, rows of small cumulus clouds in long parallel lanes that fan out slightly at the ends.

    None on view right now

  • Columnar basalt

    Columnar basalt, hexagonal rock columns of different heights seen from above and from the side.

    None on view right now

  • Contrail Crossings

    Contrail crossings, condensation trails that intersect, fan out and trail off into veils.

    None on view right now

  • Crown Shyness

    Crown shyness, tree canopies seen from below that never touch and leave channels of light between them.

    None on view right now

  • Field parcels

    Field parcels, farmland from above with plots, strips, hedgerows and tracks.

    None on view right now

  • Fir Branches

    Fir branches, twigs with paired needles, buds and cone stubs, seen from the side and the end.

    None on view right now

  • Fish Scales

    Fish scales, overlapping rows of scales with growth rings, set in offset courses.

    None on view right now

  • Foraminifera

    Foraminifera, chambered shells of single-celled sea animals, coiled or in rows with growing chambers.

    None on view right now

  • Fractal Coastlines

    Fractal coastlines, shorelines built by repeated midpoint displacement, with bays, headlands and small islands.

    None on view right now

  • Geode Slices

    Geode slices, cut-open geodes with banding, crystal points and a hollow core.

    None on view right now

  • Glacier Crevasses

    Glacier crevasses, cracks that open across the flow and fan out toward the margins.

    None on view right now

  • Hurricane spirals

    Hurricane spirals seen from above, with spiral arms, eye and eye wall, drawn without any weather chart.

    None on view right now

  • Ice floes

    Ice floes, drifting slabs with rounded corners, cracks and channels of open water between them.

    None on view right now

  • Ice Halos

    Ice halos, rings and arcs of light around the sun made by ice crystals, without a vertical pillar.

    None on view right now

  • Karst sinkholes

    Karst sinkholes, fields of funnel-shaped depressions with contour lines and collapsed passages.

    None on view right now

  • Mycelium Networks

    Mycelium networks, fine fungal threads that branch, fuse and form a dense web.

    None on view right now

  • Ocean Gyres

    Ocean gyres, large circulating currents with boundary flows and smaller eddies at the edges.

    None on view right now

  • Ridge silhouettes

    Ridge silhouettes, mountain crests in staggered rows that grow finer toward the horizon.

    None on view right now

  • River Deltas

    River deltas seen from above, with branching distributaries, sandbars and islands at the mouth.

    None on view right now

  • Romanesco Spirals

    Romanesco spirals, self-similar cones arranged in logarithmic spirals like the head of a romanesco.

    None on view right now

  • Salt Polygons

    Salt polygons, desert salt crusts with raised polygon rims and fine cracks.

    None on view right now

  • Sand Dollars

    Sand dollars, flat sea urchins with a five-part flower pattern of pore rows and rays.

    None on view right now

  • Snow Drifts

    Snow drifts, wind-sculpted ridges with scoured hollows behind obstacles and sharp crests.

    None on view right now

  • Stalactite caves

    Stalactite caves in section, with cones hanging from the roof, mounds on the floor and columns between them.

    None on view right now

  • Strata Folds

    Strata folds, bent rock layers in cross section with anticlines, synclines and faults.

    None on view right now

  • Tectonic plates

    Tectonic plates, a mosaic of slabs with trenches, ridges and transform boundaries.

    None on view right now

  • Tide lines

    Tide lines, retreating wave edges on a beach, shifted in parallel.

    None on view right now

  • Tortoise shells

    Tortoise shells, carapaces of hexagonal horn plates with growth rings inside each plate.

    None on view right now

  • Water Lilies

    Water lilies, floating leaves and blossoms seen from above, with rings on the water.

    None on view right now

  • Wind Streamlines

    Wind streamlines, airflow around hills and buildings with stagnation zones and wakes.

    None on view right now

  • Winter trees

    Winter trees, bare trees whose branches divide finely, drawn as silhouettes in lines.

    None on view right now

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Symbols 34 forms

  • When Reflective Bluff opposite Building — 121 hex signs

    Hex Signs

    Hex signs, Pennsylvania Dutch barn emblems with ringed borders and compass-drawn daisy wheels, rosettes, stars or tulip wreaths.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Acre of Humble beside Waiting — 39 Adinkra symbols

    Adinkra Symbols

    Adinkra symbols of the Akan people of West Africa, drawn as outlines, such as Sankofa, Akoma and Dwennimmen.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Stark Cave on the Petrifying — Tomoe, 67 elements

    Tomoe

    Tomoe, two, three or four comma shapes swirling inside a circle, built exactly from tangent circular arcs.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Woven Acre between the Arching — Ogham, 104 elements

    Ogham

    Ogham, vertical stem lines on a standing stone carved with groups of one to five notches per letter.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Evenhanded Brook with Bearing — 95 ouroboros

    Ouroboros

    Ouroboros, a scaled serpent biting its own tail, coiled into a ring or a figure-eight with an over-under crossing.

    All 12 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • When the Earnest Bog round Tying — 150 petroglyphs

    Petroglyphs

    Petroglyphs, rock outlines carved with spirals, concentric rings, sun signs, stick figures, ibexes and zigzag snakes.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • When Wide Air after Flickering — Yin-Yang, 75 elements

    Yin-Yang

    Yin-yang symbols, a circle divided by an S-curve into two halves, each holding a dot of the other.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • Mature Bay round the Keeping — 70 heraldic shields

    Heraldic Shields

    Heraldic Shields, escutcheons divided into fields by heraldic partition lines and charged with fleurs-de-lis, stars, crescents and roses.

    All 12 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Aura of Sublime beyond Freshening — 135 nazca lines

    Nazca Lines

    Nazca lines, desert geoglyphs drawn as one unbroken line: hummingbird, double spiral, spiral-tailed monkey and squared meander.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • When the Constant Bog above Finding — 56 auspicious clouds

    Auspicious Clouds

    Auspicious clouds, the curling, scrolled cloud motif of traditional Chinese ornament.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 7 December

  • The Bluff of Well-worn atop Lining — Shorthand, 75 elements

    Shorthand

    Shorthand, ruled pages of flowing stenographic outlines, joined curves, hooks, small circles and loops, generative and unreadable.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • When the Stoic Basin after Setting — 44 triquetras

    Triquetras

    Triquetras, three overlapping leaf-shaped arcs formed from three circles, a symbol from Celtic art.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • When Ragged Basalt amid Suffering — 141 ensō circles

    Ensō Circles

    Ensō circles, open brush-stroke rings drawn as many fine parallel strands that thin out toward a tapering end.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Bay of Time-honored betwixt Girding — 72 card suits

    Card Suits

    Card suits, spades, hearts, diamonds and clubs as outlines, on pip-laid playing cards, in sets, or as nested contours.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • When the Tender Canyon opposite Knitting — 2 dharma wheels

    Dharma Wheels

    Dharma wheels, the eight-spoked wheel that stands for the teaching of the Buddha.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • The Border down Mindful Girding — 44 flourishes

    Flourishes

    Calligraphic flourishes in the Spencerian manner, looping spirals with swelling and hairline strokes drawn as bundles of strands.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • When Sparkly Brilliance underneath Dancing — Asemic Writing, 75 elements

    Asemic Writing

    Asemic writing, blocks of handwriting-like lines made of looping strokes and word gaps that carry no meaning.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 6 December

  • Genuine Border from the Echoing — Braille, 2 elements

    Braille

    Braille, lines of raised-dot cells in the six-dot system, spelling short words with an optional rounded plate.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Warm Basin in the Flowing — 72 endless knots

    Endless Knots

    Endless-knot-style lattices of closed rounded bands, simplified from the Buddhist symbol and without true over-under weaving.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What Rarefied Aurora beyond Breezing — 125 alphabet skeletons

    Alphabet Skeletons

    Alphabet skeletons, consecutive capital letters reduced to centre-line strokes with node circles, optionally inside their outlines.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What the Textured Brook on Fastening — 23 hexafoils

    Hexafoils

    Hexafoils, six-petalled compass rosettes built from overlapping circular arcs, sometimes nested, ringed or drawn as full daisy wheels.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Arch of Earthbound till Brewing — Trees of Life, 65 elements

    Trees of Life

    Stylized trees of life, a trunk with a symmetrical branching crown and mirrored roots, enclosed in a circle.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Air of Ethereal betwixt Freshening — Dot Matrix, 100 elements

    Dot Matrix

    Dot matrix lettering, short words and numerals built from a five by seven grid of round, square or diamond dots.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Beckoning Candle along the Breezing — 46 tally marks

    Tally Marks

    Tally marks, hand-scratched strokes counted in bundles of five, four upright lines struck through by a diagonal.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Frank Atoll off Ripening — 38 seven-segment digits

    Seven-Segment Digits

    Seven-segment digits, lit segments drawn as pointed hexagon outlines in rows, clock or number displays, sometimes slanted or framed.

    All 11 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Acre of Earthbound over Building — 87 Chartres labyrinths

    Chartres Labyrinths

    Chartres-style labyrinths, concentric circuits with alternating gaps leading to a centre, after the cathedral floor.

    All 7 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Sienna Alcove past the Persisting — Compass Rose, 54 elements

    Compass Rose

    Compass roses, rays of three different lengths marking main directions and diagonals, as on old maps.

    All 9 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • When Meditative Basin atop Drawing — Kamon, 122 elements

    Kamon

    Kamon-style crests, original radial designs of leaves, petals, fans, hexagons, lozenges or wisteria inside a ring.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • Kindly Canyon During the Entwining — 78 zodiac glyphs

    Zodiac Glyphs

    Zodiac glyphs, the twelve astrological signs drawn as clean line symbols, alone, in a wheel or a grid.

    All 10 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • The Honeyed Bluff beyond Passing — 132 Borromean rings

    Borromean Rings

    Borromean rings, three interlocked rings with alternating crossings, so that no two are linked yet none can be removed.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 5 December

  • What Rich Bay without Crafting — 75 Sri yantras

    Sri Yantras

    Sri Yantras, the Hindu diagram of nine interlocking triangles around a central point.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 4 December

  • Daylit Brilliance out Lifting — Morse Code, 94 elements

    Morse Code

    Morse Code, lines of dots and dashes timed like real telegraphy, set as rows on an optional paper-tape strip.

    All 8 on viewNewest leaves 4 December

  • What Abiding Basin Inside Melding — 113 alchemical symbols

    Alchemical Symbols

    Alchemical symbols for the four elements, the seven planets, salt and sulfur, one sign per drawing.

    All 7 on viewNewest leaves 4 December

  • Well-worn Brook for Reckoning — 24 dreamcatchers

    Dreamcatchers

    Dreamcatchers, a wrapped hoop with a spiral-woven web, small beads and hanging strings ending in feathers.

    All 7 on viewNewest leaves 4 December

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Other forms 5 forms

  • Kite Strings

    Kite strings, kites with lines, tails and frames, offset against one another in the wind.

    None on view right now

  • Pachinko Pins

    Pachinko pins, fields of pegs where ball paths bounce off nails and branch.

    None on view right now

  • Paper Planes

    Paper planes, folded gliders with flight paths and flocks, seen from the side and from above.

    None on view right now

  • Peg Boards

    Peg boards, perforated boards with pegs and chains of jumps.

    None on view right now

  • Spinning Tops

    Spinning tops, toys with grooves and flywheel rings, drawn as sequences of ellipses in rotation.

    None on view right now

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