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The circle was approximately 2 meters in diameter, and consisted of two distinct shapes, radially arranged as 25–30 deep ditches in the outer-ring region, and shallow maze-like ditches in the central region (Fig. In 1990s, on the seabed around Amami Oshima Island, southwest Japan, native divers discovered a mysterious crop circle-like structure. Other studies indicated that orb-web spiders could also build their ordered webs by repeating simple actions without recognizing the whole structure 13, 14. Previous studies, using computer simulations, suggested that the behaviors of social insects do not depend on the whole nest structure during construction, and are rather simply determined by local physical or chemical conditions, and the structural patterns gradually appear through the repetition of local behaviors 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. How they are able to construct such a geometrical structure is an interesting ecological question to be addressed. The structures of some of the nests, such as those hosting colonies of ants or termites, and honeycombed structures of wasps and bees, are well organized and much larger than the body size of the builders. "Inversion." From MathWorld-A Wolfram Web Resource.Many animals build diverse and complex forms of nests, which protect their eggs and offspring from predators, and can also act as a signal to attract mates 1, 2. Referenced on Wolfram|Alpha Inversion Cite this as: Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry. "Extrait deĭeux lettres adressées à M. Liouville." J. "Extrait d'un lettre de M.William Thomson a M.Liouville." J. Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, Vol. 2, unabridged 3rd ed. Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, Vol. 1, unabridged 3rd ed. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, pp. 176-181,

"The Theory of Inversion." Ch. 14 in AnĮlementary Treatise on Modern Pure Geometry. Geometry: An Elementary Treatise on the Geometry of the Triangle and the Circle.īoston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, pp. 43-57, 1929. Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism, 5th ed. Sixth Book of Mathematical Games from Scientific American. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: Charles Babbage Researchįoundation, pp. 17-22 and 93-99, 1989. Leçons sur les systemes orthogonaux et les coordonnées curvilignes. "Inversion in a Circle" and "Inversion of Lines and Circles." Is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods, 2nd ed. Treatise on the Geometry of the Circle and Sphere. To Modern Geometry with Numerous Examples, 5th ed., rev. Sequel to the First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid, Containing an Easy Introduction

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With inversion center and inversion radius is another circle The inverse of a circle of radius with center with respect to an inversion circle The illustration above shows examples of the results of geometric inversion. By picking a suitable inversion circle, it is often possible to transform one geometric configuration into another simpler one in which a proof is more easily effected. The property that inversion transforms circles and lines to circles or lines (and that inversion is conformal) makes it an extremely important tool of plane analytic geometry. The inversion circle itself, circles orthogonal to it,Īnd lines through the inversion center are invariant Limiting points of the two circles (Coxeter 1969),Īnd any two circles can be inverted into themselves or into two equal circles (Caseyġ888, pp. 97-98).

The inversion center at one of the two so-called Furthermore,Īny two nonintersecting circles can be inverted into concentric circles by taking Invert to circles (Lachlan 1893, p. 221). Treating lines as circles of infinite radius, all circles Note that a point on the circumference of the inversion circle is its own inverse point.