Generalized Pythagorean Lutes
Spencer Nicholas Whitehead

Proceedings of Bridges 2022: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Culture
Pages 335–338
Short Papers

Abstract

The lute of Pythagoras is a well-known self-similar pattern filling the plane with regular pentagons and pentagrams. This paper describes a generalization to higher dimensions and classification of such objects, yielding lutes corresponding to the dodecahedron in three dimensions and the 120-cell in four dimensions. A semi-formal discussion of these results is presented, together with Zome models and computer images of the new lutes.

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