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 polytope providing a technique that allows the abstract regular polytope to be constructed from its symmetry group in a standard and straightforward manner. For examples of polygons in nature, see: Each of the Platonic solids occurs naturally in one form or another: Regular polytope In mathematics, a regular polytope is a polytope whose symmetry group acts transitively on its flags, thus giving it the highest degree of symmetry. All its elements or "j"-faces (for all 0 ≤ "j" ≤ "n", where "n" is the dimension of the polytope) — cells, faces and so on — are also transitive on the symmetries