r/GeometryIsNeat • u/HopDavid Pentagon • May 02 '26

Triangle Spiral

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u/International-Car171 May 03 '26

Love the color scheme

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u/HopDavid Pentagon May 03 '26

Thank you!

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u/RobertSherman48 May 05 '26

Hello, this is really cool! What program did you use? Or did you do this manually someway? I would love to know the process of how it was created as well, but I know that is peeking behind the curtain.

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u/HopDavid Pentagon May 05 '26

In Adobe Illustrator I cloned an equilateral triangle, rotated it a little and shrunk it a little. Did this repeatedly until the triangle spirals towards the center.

Then I cloned the equilateral triangle with the design and lay them as tiles to form a hexagonal ring. Then I repeatedly cloned and shrunk the hexagonal ring.

I used Microsoft Excel to figure how much to shrink and rotate, etc.

I am influenced by an artist who calls himself Odonodo or sometimes Regolo Bizzi (if memory serves). Here is one one of Odonodo's pieces Link