Reconstruction of the West Stowell 20-07-2003 formation |
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1. | ![]() | Draw a circle. Draw and extend the horizontal and vertical centerlines. | |||
2. | ![]() | Construct the inscribed 13-sided regular polygon of circle 1, pointing up. (Note, that this polygon can not be constructed by using ruler-and-compass construction methods. The co-ordinates of its angular points must be calculated). | |||
3. | ![]() | Construct a 13-pointed star, by connecting all angular points of polygon 2, five apart. (Note, that 13 and 5 both are Fibonacci-numbers, as is their difference: 8. For more on Fibonacci-numbers and the Golden Section, see R. Knott's personal pages). | |||
4. | ![]() | Construct the inscribed circle of polygon 2. | |||
5. | ![]() | Construct the inscribed 13-sided regular polygon of circle 4, pointing down. | |||
6. | ![]() | Connect all angular points of polygon 5, two apart. Extend all these connection-lines, until they meet every third extended connection-line. A 13-pointed star is formed, as shown. | |||
7. | ![]() | Construct a circle concentric to circle 1, passing through the angular points of star 6. | |||
8. | ![]() | Draw all the rays from the center of circle 1 to the angular points of star 6. | |||
9. | ![]() | Construct the inscribed circle of one of the kite-shaped parts of star 3, as shown (tangent to the diagonals of two adjacent angular points and tangent to the diagonals of the next two angular points, three apart). | |||
10. | ![]() | Copy circle 9 13 times, to the intersections of rays 8 and circle 1. | |||
11. | ![]() | Construct a small circle centered at the upper intersection of circle 4 and the vertical centerline, tangent to circle 1 at the near side. | |||
12. | ![]() | Draw the connecting line between the left intersection of the lowest circle 10 with circle 1 and the center of circle 1. Extend this line up to circle 7, see figure. | |||
13. | ![]() | Copy circle 11 to the (upper) intersection of line 12 and circle 7. | |||
14. | ![]() | Construct a circle concentric to circle 1, passing through the third set of intersections of diagonals forming star 3, counted inwards from circle 1 inclusive. | |||
15. | ![]() | Construct a small circle the centerline of which connects the lower intersections of circles 1 and 4 with the vertical centerline. | |||
16. | ![]() | Copy circle 15 13 times, to the intersections of rays 8 and circle 14. | |||
17. | ![]() | Construct the inscribed circle of the 13-sided regular polygon enclosed by star 3. | |||
18. | ![]() | Taking as its center the upper intersection of the set of intersections of the diagonals forming star 3 closest to the center of circle 1, construct a small circle, tangent to circle 17 at the near side. See figure. | |||
19. | ![]() | Copy circle 18 13 times, to the centers of circles 16. | |||
20. | ![]() | Copy circle 18 another time, to the center of circle 13. | |||
21. | ![]() | Construct a circle concentric to circle 1, tangent to circle 20 at the upper side. | |||
22. | ![]() | Circles 1, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19 and 21, and star 3 form the ingredients for the reconstruction. | |||
23. | ![]() | Remove from circles 7, 13 and 21 the parts not visible in the formation. High resolution dwf-file | |||
24. | ![]() | Colouring green the areas corresponding to standing... High resolution dwf-file | |||
25. | ![]() | ...or to flattened crop, finishes the reconstruction of the West Stowell formation of 20-07-2003. High resolution dwf-file | |||
26. | ![]() courtesy the Crop Circle Connector photo by: Nick Nicholson | The final result matches perfectly with the aerial image. | |||
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