A sea urchin
Calcareous techas of echinoderm made of a set of calcareous plates that form a kind of stiff, protective clover (the so-called dermal skeleton) with spines. From the point of view of symmetry, the sea-urchin has a prismatic three-dimensional symmetry; a photograph taken from the right point of view evokes a dihedral symmetry of type D5.
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The image belongs to the sections...:
*5. (D5) (Symmetry)
Animals (Anthology of images)
Animals (Symmetry)
From "symmetry and everyday life" (From "XlaTangente")
