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Symmetry · Module overview
Interactive kaleidoscope with dihedral symmetry All 17 wallpaper groups with motif painting Penrose kite-and-dart inflation engine Islamic star polygon compass construction Quasicrystal cut-and-project visualizer Symmetry & Tilings | MathAtlas Interactive exploration of symmetry groups, tessellations, Penrose tilings, wallpaper groups, Islamic geometric art, and quasicrystals.
Hyperbolic Geometry · Lesson
Triangles are colored in an alternating pattern so the reflection symmetry is visible.
Group Theory · Lesson
Symmetry & Shape Rotate a square a quarter turn or flip it over, and it looks the same.
Particle Physics · Lesson
… watch it roll from the unstable top into the valley of broken symmetry.
Lie Groups · Lesson
Symmetry as the Language of Physics Every conservation law in physics comes from a symmetry, and every fundamental force comes from a Lie group.
Symmetry · Lesson
Interactive kaleidoscope drawing with dihedral group symmetry
Random Matrices · Lesson
Three symmetry classes, three exponents, and nothing else in between
Group Theory · Module overview
Symmetry, Cayley diagrams, and the group zoo
Representation Theory · Lesson
Visualize irreducible representations as symmetry-breaking animations
Lie Groups · Module overview
Continuous symmetry, rotations, and root systems
Electromagnetism · Lesson
The four equations unified, displacement current, and symmetry
Group Theory · Lesson
Color-coded Cayley tables that expose patterns, symmetry, and subgroup structure
Aperiodic Tilings · Lesson
Two tiles, fivefold symmetry, and the golden ratio hiding in the counts
Galois Theory · Lesson
The smallest field containing all roots of a polynomial -- where symmetry lives
Group Theory · Lesson
Formalize the four axioms visually using symmetry shapes
Symmetry · Lesson
… how all four edges of a quadrilateral tile relate, determining the tile's symmetry and tessellation pattern.
Symmetry · Lesson
… the motif, every such pattern has one of just seven kinds of symmetry.
Symmetry · Lesson
… underlying lattice (hexagonal, square, etc.) and star polygon order determines the pattern's symmetry group.
Symmetry · Lesson
They carry a 5-fold symmetry that no repeating tiling can have.
Symmetry · Lesson
In 1982 a crystal with a forbidden 10-fold symmetry proved otherwise: order without repetition.