Lute of Pythagoras

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Pen-and-ink drawing of the lute of Pythagoras.
Pen-and-ink drawing of the lute of Pythagoras.

The lute of Pythagoras is a geometric form made of pentagons with inscribed pentagrams where the sides of the pentagrams are the sides of the smaller pentagons. The form is a fractal, like the Koch snowflake where an infinite progression of forms fits into a finite space.

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