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Lesson 19 of 20 · 12 moves

Flower of Life

Grow the Seed into the Flower: add the next twelve circles.

The finished construction: the figure in gold over the lines that found it.

Found carved in the Temple of Osiris at Abydos and drawn by Leonardo da Vinci, the Flower of Life is the Seed grown outward: nineteen circles in all.

First centre circles on the six outer crossings of the Seed, then on the six points where those meet the old circles.

Try it in Construct

The app snaps to every crossing, checks your construction exactly, and offers hints one move at a time.

Step by step

  1. Centre a circle on an outer crossing of the Seed, through a petal tip.

  2. The next outer crossing, through its nearest petal tip (5 times).

  3. Now centre on the new crossings two radii out, through a petal tip.

  4. Keep going around the ring (5 times).

What it shows

Nineteen circles. The Flower is the middle layer of the densest packing of spheres, as you can see in Explore.

The figure