Question about how to create "The Flower of Life" symbol

[Black Panther]

There is some unwanted overlap which makes the line weight appear heavier in places and a bit "jaggy" but I'll leave it someone else to work out how to deal with that!
Phil

I don´t have seen your .xar file until now, but i think that my drawing method have no such overlaping. see attached end result please.
Best regards
BP

[PhilM]

I found a method that avoids overlapping lines by noticing that the shape is basically made up of tesselated triangles of petals.

Use the first few steps of my previous example to make a triangular arrangement of three petals snapped together, like this:


Then snap copies of the triangle together to form a rough hexagon with 7 rows of:
3
4
5
6
5
4
3

Then snap single petals to close the gaps around the edges and draw the enclosing circle.


Phil

[angelize]

These are interesting methods, I have been doing it with circles and using the snap to objects and each circle is snapped with either it's edge aligned to the center of the previous circle or intersections where the circles overlap. I build the seed of life first and then build outward on that until I have the flower. To finish it off I draw the final large circle around the flower and remove the bits I dont need.

[Egg Bramhill]

Interesting exercise. Here's my method:

http://screencast.com/t/TB2dCiV3

[handrawn]

ok - here's the geometry for the duplication method - as attached - the more accurate the measurements the more accurate the drawing of course...

I am told that for a 60 degree angle the y offset should be a quarter the circle diameter, but the x offset needs to be measured/calculated

[BTW: I thought I had used a 200pix circle, but somewhere along the way xara decided it is 200.2pix - don't see any noticable difference...]



in practice you can put the two offset values either way round and it still appears to work...




thats interesting too Egg all good fun

[rpc9943]

This is awesome thanks everyone I've learned a lot

[handrawn]

thats good

I just learnt that since it is a circle the choice of which to call x and which to call y is purely arbitary; which makes sense

[angelize]

First I apologize for taking so long to get this done ( I had family matters to attend to)

I like Eggs method, it's quick and easy. I went ahead and did my video any way as it shows my method better than my previous explanation. My method as you will see in the video follows the theory of some of the symbols that are contained in the flower of life. What really amazes me is that these symbols date back to biblical times and possibly even before that and yet the first steps of the creation of this symbol going by the theory and starting with the Vescia Piscus and going through to the Seed of Life are almost identical to the stages of division of a fertilized human egg as it becomes an embryo, something only visible with a microscope!