A form of the "Flower of Life" hexagonal pattern (where the center of each circle is on the circumference of six surrounding circles of the same diameter) made up of 61 complete circles (making clear the way in which the pattern is constructed). Since only complete circles are used, the full pattern is only visible towards the center of the diagram.
Generated by means of the following PostScript code:
%!
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% PostScript program to display the "flower of life" pattern (i.e.
% hexagonal pattern of intersecting circles, where the center of
% each circle is on the circumference of six other circles).
%%% Parameters:
/hexsize 5 def % number of circles along each side of hexagon
/diam 62.4 def % radius of each circle
/linew 1.84 def % thickness of each circle
%%% Procedures:
gsave 306 396 % change to 297 421 to center on A4 size paper
translate 30 rotate linew setlinewidth/j hexsize 1 sub def
j neg 1 j{/i exch def/y i diam mul .75 sqrt mul def /i j j i abs
sub add def gsave i 2 div diam mul neg 0 translate
0 1 i{diam mul y diam 0 360 arc stroke}for
grestore}for grestore showpage
%EOF
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