Our exalted queen, the powerful Boa Anch Apepi has a strange obsession with round buildings, and it is i her architect, who alone can tell thee of the troubles, that arose because of it…
This is the demonic structure in her mind:
The next is an experimental base in the volcano. Its not very nice, but it has a Greater Wheel of Pain at ground level, a maproom above it and an interesting roof. I also added a aquilonian living area for cool atmosphere
Now the masterpiece. This one stresses the building program to the limit. Everytime i log in certain pieces fall off and i have to replace them. The complicated structure with many triangular pieces supported only by six pillars seems to overburden the program. Its the “Arena of Derketo”.
Love that Aquilonian base! I actually have that first screenshot saved to my DropBox as a reference photo — it’s genius!
EDIT: Holy $#!+ that dome! 
Thx!
But here is the bug report. The next picture is the supporting roof. The tiles with the arrows change their stability between 40 and 60 !
Damn tricksy stability system! 
I was going to ask how you accomplished that, but then I saw pillars connecting triangular bits and I got sad 
I hope they fix that bug one day.
All in all, a breathtaking architecture! I’m bookmarking it to steal some of your tricks 
Awesome! I am reminded of the architecture of Persia - specifically the Golestan Palace, and Moghul India.
Thx! But we need much more building pieces to make something like that… Hey devs, take the hint!
The Inverted wedged sh* is still falling on my queens bed every day, and the inverted sloped walls still have the wrong thumbnail and… But since I found my perfect modular pattern and the argossean pieces are awesome, I am now even more committed to build the perfect little base. I am especially proud of my staircase.
Since it´s an obsession in the meantime i have built a dozen bases with this plan, so i am kind of a specialist for it, which makes it easier.
I admire Pantheon, Hagia Sophia, Sultan Achmed Mosque a lot. But my favourite building is St. Mark´s Basilica in Venice, these guys made their own unique style.
So building the Tower of the Elephant was really fun. I wish, it would be possible to have different lighting from outside inside of buildings, that would be next level!
This is the pattern, I´ve used. It stands on 36 pillars, to have enough stability to build additional stuff inside and outside, and there are alternative patterns, which also fit in, like the vortex:
Idk, isn´t it visible? If you use the pattern in the first picture, you get the center, then simply outward, and surprisingly the triangles, where the outward pillars are, also exist in the vortex pattern. I was looking for different symmetries in the pattern from my last posting, which is trifold, to hexagonal. Then I thought, there is also rotational symmetry, and wow! -stumbled over it! In june I was totally into that stuff. There are so many shapes, it is amazing!
Maybe better pictures to see it. Start with the third one:
The roof was a problem. It has two layers, outside turanian, inside argossean, because of the look, but also the supporting structure can be hidden in between. Nice! But then of course, a bug with the Inverted rectangular corners. Luckily, after hours I managed to find a workaround.
Some other stuff, many will already know. The geometric possibilities are endless, but we are restricted by the stability system (which adds an extra layer of consideration). All the gaps can be closed (But I am lazy).
I feel like if I keep staring at your structures long enough, they start staring back. So I just take a quick glance, feel dizzy and impressed at the same time, and go away before I get hypnotized by your patterns. Not long enough to get a solid idea of how you managed to build them.
I want more people to play with these patterns and share it. I did what everybody does, building intuitive for almost a year, and it was great. Then I remembered there was a thread in the wiki, how to make a roof for a round maproom and started to experiment.
The square-triangle system is truly a marvel ! I don´t know how mathematicians call it, but over time I found my own math around it, and I encourage everyone to do that, it is so much fun! It really pays off to wrap your head around it.
Maybe it is something like the Dodekagon- Grid. I admit, I didn´t search a lot for it, mostly the article about patterns in wikipedia. But there was the word “recreational mathematics”, and this seems to be my thing. Although it can give you some recreational headache, thats for sure 
I often think about writing down some of the rules i found, but this would be like work. For one it is not so simple to formulate words, that are understandable -this is not my first language, and second, i don´t want to teach.
Just an example, lol:
If you combine squares and triangles, there are always 2 squares and three triangles!
…sounds simple, but i found it only after 1000 hours of playing, which is somewhat embarrassing.
I really like this idea and you have inspired me to start experimenting more with the patterns and the mathematics too. I am not often humbled by other people’s builds and designs, but I can honestly say your work humbles me. Beautiful architecture! Keep up the great work and keep posting. If I find anything interesting in my experiments to contribute I will.
