This one seems to be the most practical & elegant with just straightedge & compass. Maybe I'm misinterpreting what I'm seeing in the links I'm looking at, but isn't a strictly-speaking-perfect construction impossible? If I'm reading this right, the best you can do is minimize or constrain the error. It sounds ridiculous to say it because it's obviously beautiful, but I've never really felt much of a thing for the sri yantra.
That's a new one to me, so thanks for that. I must try it soon.
This shows two 'perfect' versions, but arrives at them via trial and error and calculation rather than construction. I suppose it just feels as though there should be a perfect non-measured, straightedge and compass method. I *want* there to be one.
I dismissed this shape for a long time as being nothing more that a quirk, an oddity, a non-geometric. It wasn't until I tried to construct the damn thing that I started to grasp it's subtleties. It's a challenge.
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This shows two 'perfect' versions, but arrives at them via trial and error and calculation rather than construction. I suppose it just feels as though there should be a perfect non-measured, straightedge and compass method. I *want* there to be one.
I dismissed this shape for a long time as being nothing more that a quirk, an oddity, a non-geometric. It wasn't until I tried to construct the damn thing that I started to grasp it's subtleties. It's a challenge.
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