Geometric "floral" configurations
Tomaž Pisanski, Leah Berman, Jürgen Bokowski and Branko Grünbaum
Can. math. bull. Volume 52, Number 3, pp. 327-341, 2009. ISSN 0008-4395

Abstract

With an increase in size, configurations of points and lines in the plane usually become complicated and hard to analyze. The "floral'' configurations we are introducing here represent a new type that makes accessible and visually intelligible even configurations of considerable size. This is achieved by combining a large degree of symmetry with a hierarchical construction. Depending on the details of the interdependence of these aspects, there are several subtypes that are described and investigated.

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