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Geometric “Floral” Configurations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Leah Wrenn Berman
Affiliation:
Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennylvania, U.S.A. e-mail: lberman@ursinus.edu
Jürgen Bokowski
Affiliation:
Technical University Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany e-mail: juergen.bokowski@googlemail.com
Branko Grünbaum
Affiliation:
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. e-mail: grunbaum@math.washington.edu
Tomaž Pisanski
Affiliation:
University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia e-mail: Tomaz.Pisanski@fmf.uni-lj.si
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Abstract

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With an increase in size, configurations of points and lines in the plane usually become complicated and hard to analyze. The “floral” configurations we are introducing here represent a new type that makes accessible and visually intelligible even configurations of considerable size. This is achieved by combining a large degree of symmetry with a hierarchical construction. Depending on the details of the interdependence of these aspects, there are several subtypes that are described and investigated.

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Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2009

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