Star polygons in art and culture Star polygons in art and culture Star polygons and polygonal compounds are the basis for numerous figures of significance in arts and culture. The figure may be the border or interior of the polygon, or one or more closed polygonal paths that include all of the border and also have some legs crossing the interior. Impressions of astronomical stars provide the term, but specific uses may exploit the connection or not. Stars often represent the unity of states within a country when they are used as a part of the flag. The five-pointed star, if drawn with points of equal
Regular polygon (of order 2"n"): "D", "D", "D", ... It consists of the rotations in "C", together with reflection symmetry in "n" axes that pass through the center. If "n" is even then half of these axes pass through two opposite vertices, and the other half through the midpoint of opposite sides. If "n" is odd then all axes pass through a vertex and the midpoint of the opposite side. All regular simple polygons (a simple polygon is one that does not intersect itself anywhere) are convex. Those having the same number of sides are also similar. An "n"-sided convex regular polygon