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Plane Geometry - Bruce E. Shapiro

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262 SECTION 45. EUCLIDEAN CONSTRUCTIONSAn Apollonian Gasket, a fractal generated by triples of circles that aretangent to one another. Different gaskets are formed by choosing differentdiameters for the starting circles. The gasket forms a complete tessellationof the hyperbolic plane, and all Apollonian gaskets are congruent in hyperbolicgeometry. Named for Apollonius of Perga (262 - 190 BCE). [Imagegenerated with Mathematica.]« CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. Revised: 18 Nov 2012

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