EOS, The Chesterhedron And Sacred Geometry. Blockchain Of The Heart

“So, the logo is a seven sided platonic solid. Its sacred geometry, like the tetrahedron and several others. All the sides have the same exact surface area and its actually the geometric form that underlies the structure of our heart. There are some great videos about it online. It was discovered by Frank Chester seventeen years ago. We like to think EOS is a blockchain of the heart. We take a more holistic realistic view that code is not perfect, people are not perfect. Blockchain should serve people, and that we should not be masters of the code”   Dan Larimer introducing EOS @ Consensus 2017 What is sacred geometry? Ancient cultures such as Chritsians, Hindus, Greeks and Egyptians, recognised that certain patterns or geometic shapes are repeated throughout nature. For example, the cells of a honeycomb are hexagons, and a snail’s shell is a spiral. These common patterns and shapes came to be known as sacred geometry. They were further broken down into various numbers, mathematical formulas and specific symbols that the ancients believed were the building blocks for everything in the universe. Modern science supports this theory. It’s been found that the molecular shapes that form the basis of life are in fact many of the same patterns identified by ancient cultures. Knowledge of these sacred symbols and mathematical formulas allowed the construction of many historical buildings, such as the great pyramids of Egypt, the Greek Parthenon and the intricate temples found throughout South and Central America.   Platonic Solids The Platonic solids are symmetrical geometric structures, which are bounded by regular polygons, all of the same size and shape. Moreover, all edges of each polygon are the same length and all angles are equal. The same number of faces meets at every vertex (corner or point). Furthermore, if you draw a straight line between any two points in any Platonic solid, this piece of straight line will be completely contained within the solid, which is the property of a convex polyhedron. An amazing fact is that can be only five different regular convex polyhedra. These perfect forms are: Tetrahedron – 4 faces in a pyramid shape Hexahedron – 6 faces in a cube Octahedron – 8 faces Dodecahedron – 12 faces Icosahedron – 20 faces The ancient Greeks believed that these five shapes symbolized fire, earth, air, spirit (or ether) and water, respectively. These are the only five 3-dimentional shapes that can be made with equal-sized faces. They are called Platonic solids because Plato identified them in Greek. The Chestohedron The Chestahedron was discorverd in 2000 by artist Frank Chester. The Chestahedron is a 7 sided geometric figure which is similar to so-called Platonic Solids, in that all of the faces have the same amount of surface area. The difference being that the Chestahedron has 2 types of faces, Triangles and Kites, whereas the platonic solids only have one type of face. Loading...