margazhi kolams

Normally flowers have only five petals. This has something to do with growth and related to the hEmachandra-Fibonacci series I spoke about recently. But thogh rare, there are a few six petalled flowers. One such flower is a sparkling blue flower. Two arrangements with it are shown. Find the difference between the two, if possible. When we draw rangOlis with dots, the symmetry is perfect if the dots are placed properly. But in nature, even if there is six-fold symmetry it is only approximate and any arrangement with such a flower is also approximate. That is why the contacts in these pictures are not perfect. The search for perfection is always through symmetry. That is why the artists in Islam used symmetric patterns in their mosques to search for the perfect.