Can’t help but post this beautiful octagonal star design by Mélisande*: She calls this piece “Stars, Flower and Octagons”. It’s an extension of a design she was exploring in December, based on an irregular negative-space octagonal star – the shape created when you connect lines from all four corners of a square to the midpoints along the sides. She further details the origins of this shape via some geometrical explanations on this flickr post: It has been used quite a bit historically, including this Moorish mosque (now a church) ceiling in Toledo, Spain. (Image used under CC license permission from albTotxo’s flickr photostream.) And of course I would be remiss not to mention Mélisande’s new blog, starting 1/1/2008! La Chronique de Mélisande* I’d be hard pressed to find a nicer person out there. She has this to say about her art: I’m not claiming my art to be only a product of my own genius, nor have I proprietarian pretentions on it : many of my ideas actually come from friends of mine and I’m …