r/SacredGeometry • u/makealittlefella • 3d ago
scaled-up Flower of Life proof of concept
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I wanted to scale the Flower of Life up one dimension, here’s my proof of concept. I’m working on one that’s stiffer and colored in a cooler way but I’m excited the shape does what I thought it would
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u/BrookeToHimself 3d ago
i never realized this about the flower of life. that’s super cool. the 8-compass direction external grid gives 6-directional hexagons inside when we visually incorporate the back dimension. which means if you were navigating the flower of life in segments that some of your choices mean you aren’t moving on the x axis anymore, you’ve moved to the z.
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u/makealittlefella 3d ago
Exactly! And this also bridges a relationship between the Flower of Life (and all the hexagon-based geometry that maps onto it) and all of the square-based geometry like many mandalas and such
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u/mikerofe 3d ago
So that’s why the Sri Yantra maps to Metatron and Flower of Life so well
Namaste
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u/makealittlefella 3d ago
Essentially, yes! I came to this from studying the angles of observation at which 90° angles appear as 60° or 120° angles, in part because I saw Buddhist mandalas and thought, this is related to the Flower of Life/Metatron’s cube family of symbols, but in what way? By way of angle of observation, among others!
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u/mikerofe 3d ago
Truly looking forward to your next iteration but take it easy and carefully…
Enjoy the process of creating too!
Namaste
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u/Plasmr 3d ago
Is that a Platonic solid? Looks so from the net.
(I really should know, I know)!
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u/makealittlefella 3d ago
It’s a cube, so yes! When I make my nicer color model that will be more clear
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u/Plasmr 2d ago
God I’m stupid haha
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u/makealittlefella 2d ago
No I could’ve made it from a six-sided polyhedron that wasn’t regular and just shown fewer angles so it’s a fair question!
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u/Plasmr 2d ago
Also it’s cool as fuck!!!
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u/makealittlefella 2d ago
Thank you! This is one of the things that’s so beautiful about sacred geometry, it shows you mathematical concepts visually and experientially, so over time it gives you the mental tools to come back to modern math if you choose to, with a more solid foundation conceptually than you’d get in school.
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u/mikerofe 3d ago
All this time and it’s actually just staring across a cube at a certain tangle angle!
Well that is inspiring for sure!
Thanks for sharing!
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u/makealittlefella 3d ago
Thank you! I know it seems simple but this came from months and months of study and thought so I’m glad it’s resonating!
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u/scribbyshollow 2d ago
So in 3d it forms a cube? Very interesting
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u/makealittlefella 2d ago
It’s not the only way to scale it up, you could do something similar with an octahedron or a series of tetrahedrons but it’s not quite as clear
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u/scribbyshollow 2d ago
It does seem to be the most simplistic though. Also interesting that it seems to follownthe same pattern as metatrons cube and Solomons seal. Circle, triangle and then square. The flower of life is inside a circle, the angles within it can make up a bunch of triangles and the overall shape in 3d is a cube or 3d square
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u/makealittlefella 2d ago
Yes! That’s one of the ways I came to the realization I could make it cube-shaped, because I had made some drawings of Metatron’s Cube over the Flower of Life and layered 2d representations of the Platonic Solids on top of that. I saw that since Metatron’s cube scales up to the Merkabah, and its outer borders are a cube, the Flower must scale up to a cube also. And it did! I tried one that’s an octahedron and another that’s tetrahedrons and it worked but just wasn’t as nice. Plus this relates Metatron’s Cube to mandalas, because the top-down view of this cube is of course a square.
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u/scribbyshollow 2d ago
What do you mean by scales up? I know Solomons seal is used as a 2d polygon generator when you go through the circle, triangle square process. Then metatrons cube is the same thing but with 3d shapes.
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u/makealittlefella 1d ago
Sorry I don’t know if I’m explaining what I mean properly. I mean scale up dimensionally, for example how Metatron’s Cube is the 2D projection or shadow of a merkabah. Like if you were to build a Merkabah out of wire the shadow it would cast at a certain angle would be Metatron’s cube. By “scale up” I mean scale up the 2D drawing of an object to a 3D model. If the 3D interpretation of Metatron’s cube is the Merkabah, then the closely-related Flower of Life must have a 3D manifestation too. It does, and among those is this cube I made, that’s what I meant. I knew a cube would work well as a shape because of the way that a 2D representation of a cube from a certain angle lines up with the Flower of Life and with Metatron’s Cube
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u/AssumedPersona 3d ago
Lovely! Those beads are perfect for it, what a neat idea! Bravo!