2022 Cake Wood formation
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Reconstruction of the 2022 Cake Wood formation | ||
| 1. |
| Draw a circle. Draw and extend the horizontal and vertical centerlines. |
| 2. |
| Construct the inscribed hexagon (regular 6-sided polygon) of circle 1, pointing up. |
| 3. |
| Construct a circle centered at the righthand intersection of hexagon 2 and the horizontal centerline, tangent to circle 1 at the righthand side. |
| 4. |
| Copy circle 3 to the center of circle 1. |
| 5. |
| Construct the inscribed equilateral triangle of circle 4, pointing down. Extend its righthand side upwards upto hexagon 2. |
| 6. |
| Construct a circle centered at the intersection of hexagon 2 and extended line 5, passing through the righthand intersection of triangle 5 and the horizontal centerline. |
| 7. |
| Draw the connecting line between the center of circle 6 and its righthand intersection with the horizontal centerline. |
| 8. |
| Draw a line parallel to extended line 5, from the righthand intersection of circle 4 and the horizontal centerline, upto line 7. |
| 9. |
| Construct a circle concentric to circle 6, passing through the intersection of lines 7 and 8. |
| 10. |
| Draw a line parallel to line 7, from the intersection of extended line 5 and circle 9, downto the horizontal centerline. |
| 11. |
| Extend the lefthand side of triangle 5 downwards downto hexagon 2. |
| 12. |
| Construct a circle tangent to line 11, tangent to the righthand side of triangle 5, and tangent to the horizontal centerline. |
| 13. |
| Construct the inscribed equilateral triangle of circle 12, pointing down. Extend its righthand side upwards upto line 10. |
| 14. |
| Construct a circle concentric to circle 6, passing through the intersection of extended line 13 and line 10. |
| 15. |
| Draw a line parallel to line 7, from the intersection of line 8 and circle 14, downto the horizontal centerline. |
| 16. |
| Draw the connecting line between the righthand intersection of triangle 5 and the intersection of line 7, both with the horizontal centerline. |
| 17. |
| Remove from extended line 5, lines 7, and 8, extended line 13, and lines 15, and 16, all redundant parts... |
| 18. |
| ...such that this pattern remains. |
| 19. |
| Copy pattern 18 four times, while rotating around the center of circle 1, with respect to the other angular points of hexagon 2, except the lower one, as shown. |
| 20. |
| Copy the upper lefthand pattern 19 as a whole, from its lower righthand angular point, to the intersection of line 11 and hexagon 2, as shown. |
| 21. |
| Construct the circumscribed hexagon of circle 1, pointing up. |
| 22. |
| Patterns 18, 19, and 20, and hexagon 21, together, make up the final reconstruction. |
| 23. |
| Colour all areas corresponding to standing... |
| 24. |
| ...or to flattened crop, and finish the reconstruction of the 2022 Cake Wood formation. |
| 25. |
| The final result, matched with two aerial images. |
| Copyright © 2022, Zef Damen, The Netherlands |
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