Reconstruction of the 1999 Roundway Hill formation
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| Create a heptagon, a regular 7-sided polygon.
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| A heptagon has 2 sets of diagonals, one set drawn from each corner to every second corner and one set to every third corner. Draw the "3d corner" diagonals. These form the basic heptagram, a 7-pointed star, the larger one of the Roundway formation.
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| Extend the sides of the basic heptagon until they cross. This will create a (2nd corner) heptagram of greater size. The crosspoints define the corners of the next "higher-order" heptagon.
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| Repeat this two more times... ...once
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| ...twice
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| From the last heptagram, draw the "3d corner" diagonals.
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| These diagonals enclose a smaller heptagon.
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| This heptagon forms the basis for the smaller heptagram of the Roundway formation.
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| From the corners of the smaller heptagon, draw lines to opposite corners of the larger heptagon, as shown.
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| Now, the basic shape of the smaller heptagram is ready.
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| The circles for the two sets of circles at the corners of both stars (heptagrams) are derived from smaller, lower-order heptagons. To construct these, draw the "2nd corner" diagonals from the basic heptagram.
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| Repeat this one time…
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| …and another time…
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| …and a third time. From the heptagon derived, the outer circle will be used as the greater one for the pointed star.
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| One more step will yield the smaller circle, the inner circle of the next lower-order heptagon.
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| Now, all ingredients have been derived.
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| Removing all superfluous lines will result in the reconstruction of the 1999 Roundway Hill formation.
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| The floor lay-out shows a beautiful pattern, approximately arranged along the dashed lines, as shown here.
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Copyright © 2000, Zef Damen, The Netherlands Personal use only, commercial use prohibited.
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 Since 1-Februari-2005
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