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Pinwheel pattern for the reverse operation.


For this example, 288 (= 17 × 17 − 1) complex lichts of breadth of 9 were created.


All have the same divisors, which came from a random number generator:

A𝗗 = ( [−2.157831, +2.036379], [−1.613613, −0.530356], [+1.266265, +0.314028],
[+1.609747, +0.060905], [+2.574440, +2.426379], [−0.384536, +0.795593],
[+2.399972, +1.861534], [−1.071064, −0.443848], [+0.077443, +1.506880])


There are 288 different values for A𝗟0. Each of them has for the real part an integer x in the range −8 ≤ x ≤ +8; and similarly for the imaginary part y. Omitted is [0, 0] because it leads to a panagon.

Here for instance are all the lengths for the case where A𝗟0 = [−8, −8], which is in the upper-left corner of the table:

A𝗟 = ( [−8.000000, −8.000000], [−1.337221, +6.639450], [+0.769654, −7.040293],
[+0.900147, −9.599829], [+2.972378, −10.20704], [−1.293254, −5.178448],
[−9.578399, +4.832536], [−3.903366, +4.911590], [+4.661360, −8.405169])


For each of the 288 values of A, the table below lists (rev (A))𝗚, using the character P to symbolize a panagon. Evident is that the gons form a pinwheel pattern. Remaining to be investigated is whether the boundaries between gon zones exhibit fractal behavior.

  y =
−8 −7 −6 −5 −4 −3 −2 −1 0 +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 +6 +7 +8
x = −8 6 6 6 6 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 4
−76 6666 6555 5544 4444
−66 6666 6555 5444 4444
−56 6666 6555 5444 4443
−47 6666 6655 5444 4433
−37 7766 6655 4444 3333
−27 7777 6665 4443 3333
−17 7777 7765 4333 3333
07 7777 777P 3333 3333
+17 7778 8880 2222 2223
+28 8888 8800 1222 2222
+38 8888 8000 1122 2222
+48 8888 0000 1112 2222
+58 8888 0000 1111 2222
+68 8880 0000 1111 1222
+78 8800 0000 1111 1122
+88 8000 0000 1111 1112