Keywords: Flower-of-Life-61circles.png Flower-of-Life-61circles svg A form of the Flower of Life hexagonal pattern where the center of each circle is on the circumference of six surrounding circles of the same diameter made up of 61 complete circles making clear the way in which the pattern is constructed Since only complete circles are used the full pattern is only visible towards the center of the diagram To see the most common form of the flower of life pattern using partial circular arcs so that the full pattern appears throughout view Image Flower-of-Life-19circles36arcs-enclosed png For a large carpet of the flower of life pattern go to Image Flower-of-Life-91circles36arcs png Generated by means of the following PostScript code <pre> PostScript program to display the flower of life pattern i e hexagonal pattern of intersecting circles where the center of each circle is on the circumference of six other circles Parameters /hexsize 5 def number of circles along each side of hexagon /diam 62 4 def radius of each circle /linew 1 84 def thickness of each circle Procedures gsave 306 396 change to 297 421 to center on A4 size paper translate 30 rotate linew setlinewidth/j hexsize 1 sub def j neg 1 j /i exch def/y i diam mul 75 sqrt mul def /i j j i abs sub add def gsave i 2 div diam mul neg 0 translate 0 1 i diam mul y diam 0 360 arc stroke for grestore for grestore showpage EOF</pre> Flower of Life geometry Images with PostScript source code |