Image:Flower-of-Life-small.png

English: Small, clear image of the most common 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 19 complete circles and 36 partial circular arcs, enclosed by a large circle. To see a larger image of this, view Image:Flower-of-Life-19circles36arcs-enclosed.png . To see a form of the flower of life pattern composed of complete circles only (making clear the way in which the pattern is constructed), view Image:Flower-of-Life-61circles.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:

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% 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 3 def  % number of circles along each side of hexagon
/diam 75 def    % radius of each circle
/linew 2.5 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{/k exch def/y k diam mul .75 sqrt mul def/i j j k abs sub add
def gsave i 2 div diam mul neg 0 translate 0 1 i{/z exch def z
diam mul y diam 0 360 arc stroke z 0 ne z i ne and{k j 1 sub eq{z
diam mul y 2 diam mul .75 sqrt mul add diam 180 360 arc stroke}if
k j 1 sub neg eq{z diam mul y 2 diam mul .75 sqrt mul sub diam 0
180 arc stroke}if z 1 eq k 0 ge k j ne and and{z 1.5 sub diam mul
y .75 sqrt diam mul add diam -120 60 arc stroke}if z 1 eq k 0 le k
j neg ne and and{z 1.5 sub diam mul y .75 sqrt diam mul sub diam
-60 120 arc stroke}if z i 1 sub eq k 0 ge k j ne and and{z 1.5 add
diam mul y .75 sqrt diam mul add diam 120 300 arc stroke}if z i 1
sub eq k 0 le k j neg ne and and{z 1.5 add diam mul y .75 sqrt
diam mul sub diam 60 240 arc stroke}if}if z 0 eq k j eq and{z .5
sub diam mul y .75 sqrt diam mul add diam -120 0 arc stroke}if z i
eq k j eq and{z .5 add diam mul y .75 sqrt diam mul add diam -180
-60 arc stroke}if z 0 eq k 0 eq and{z 1 sub diam mul y diam -60 60
arc stroke}if z i eq k 0 eq and{z 1 add diam mul y diam 120 240
arc stroke}if z 0 eq k j neg eq and{z .5 sub diam mul y .75 sqrt
diam mul sub diam 0 120 arc stroke}if z i eq k j neg eq and{z .5
add diam mul y .75 sqrt diam mul sub diam 60 180 arc stroke}if k j
eq{z diam mul y diam 3 sqrt mul add diam 240 300 arc stroke}if k j
neg eq{z diam mul y diam 3 sqrt mul sub diam 60 120 arc stroke}if
k 0 ge z 0 eq and{z 1.5 sub diam mul y diam .75 sqrt mul add diam
-60 0 arc stroke}if k 0 le z 0 eq and{z 1.5 sub diam mul y diam
.75 sqrt mul sub diam 0 60 arc stroke}if k 0 ge z i eq and{z 1.5
add diam mul y diam .75 sqrt mul add diam 180 240 arc stroke}if k
0 le z i eq and{z 1.5 add diam mul y diam .75 sqrt mul sub diam
120 180 arc stroke}if}for grestore}for 0 0 hexsize diam mul 0 360
arc stroke grestore showpage
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