Micro exhibition · The original geometry
The luminous lattice.
Gold, white, or luminous blue.
Light unfolds through geometry, flow, and color.
82 concentric rings
Light & motion settings
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Space pauses motion · Home resets the view
From drawing to light
Geometry held in light.
The reconstructed drawing brings together eighty-eight interwoven curves and eighty-two construction rings. Soft starlight gathers at the center while a separate family of luminous rings expands in geometric proportion. Fine blue-violet vectors meet the soft central glow, echoing the first light study.
Each luminous ring has a radius 1.3313 times the one inside it, following the HelioSynth spacing. A slow 16-second cycle carries the rings outward; adjust the cycle to change their pace. Radiance follows the actual curve lengths outward; Counterflow reverses one of the two families of 44 curves. A phase step of 14/44 = 7/22 connects their motion to the original pattern. The broad color pulse has its own cycle, breadth, and glow. Shift the star from gold through white to blue, or switch on axis spin to explore another view. The original DXF geometry is preserved beneath the light. Read about the source formation and its 22/7 relationship below.
DXF reconstruction
In the DXF reconstruction
Origins of the pattern
Woodborough Hill · 2000
This exhibition began as a reverse-engineering study of a crop circle at Woodborough Hill, Wiltshire, England. In Figure 34 of How the World Is Made, John Michell with Allan Brown describes the 2000 formation as approximately 250 feet across.
- 44
- Points around the perimeter
- 308
- Triangles in the original
- 14
- Concentric rings in the original
44 ÷ 14 = 22/7 ≈ π
The perimeter divisions and concentric rings express 22/7, the familiar fractional approximation to pi.
The original formation’s counts describe the reference pattern. This DXF reconstruction develops its geometry; the slow light pulses, 1.3313× ring spacing, rotation, and color effects are contemporary additions.