I don't know much about Magic Squares, but I had a notion for how a 9x9 Magic Square might be useful in conjunction with my 9x9 Quintagram Quilt. If you don’t know what Magic Squares are, go look them up, they are interesting. Magic Squares are even used by occultists as functional sigils. The use I thought of was only to address the various cells of my Quintagram Quilts sequentially, rather than by number and suit or by their Quintagrams. And in addressing them sequentially, the idea was to assign those sequential numbers randomly across the grid. A Magic Square is a perfect device for this purpose, because they not only scatter the numbers around the grid, but do so in a way that is "Magic."
For a brief explanation of my adventure down the rabbit hole of Magic Squares, go watch the video I posted on my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f4GjDlsX98
All I want to do here is post some of the graphics that appear in that video.
In the video I talk about a very amazing Magic Square that I found while searching the internet. I wanted to give credit to the person who put it out there, so I call it The Mathtician 9x9 Magic Square. I was so inspired by this amazing square, that I made some artwork to honor it.
This design accentuates the idea within this square of being pan diagonal; where the two smaller diagonals add together to equal the same total as the main diagonals, which equal the same total as the rows and columns. The red numbers reveal a smaller 3x3 square within the larger 9x9 square. There are many other amazing things about this square to find, if you look. Watch my video.
This one shows the square as a plain grid, with the 3x3 sub square highlighted. This is a Purple version of this Magic Square. You can get a few other color schemes printed onto a T-Shirt or other things if you go to my REDBUBBLE shop (link below).
This one shows where numbers with a similar ending (like 21, 31, 41 or 13, 63, 23) appear within the square. It leads to an interesting pattern that I decided to accentuate with colors.
I was about to settle on using this Mathtician Square, while playing around with other methods of square creation. Most of my attempts were failures at producing anything as fantastic as The Mathtician Magic Square. Until one day… I had a success! Sort of. I made a Magic Square that not only worked, but had an attractive feature. It was not anywhere near as amazing as The Mathtician Square, but it seemed to fit a lot better with the layout of my Quintagrams Quilts. So even though it’s not as amazing, I will probably use it… if I ever do anything with the idea that started this all: addressing all the cells in my Quintagram Quilts sequentially. In the mean time, I made some art work to honor my own creation. I don’t know it this result of Magic Square already exists. I do know that in all my research searches I have not seen one. Either way, I choose to put my name on it: The PalmPrints 9x9 Magic Square.
This PalmPrints square isn't pan diagonal, but I decided to duplicate the weave design anyway. The red numbers show how this square has not one, not two, not three, but four 3x3 sub squares.
This one shows the PalmPrints square as a plain grid, with the four 3x3 sub squares highlighted. This is a Blue version of this Magic Square. You can get a few other color schemes printed onto a T-Shirt or other things if you go to my REDBUBBLE shop (link below).
This one shows where numbers of the PalmPrints with a similar endings (like 21, 31, 41 or 13, 63, 23) appear within the square. It leads to an interesting pattern that I decided to accentuate with colors.
If you like any of this art, you can get it printed on various products like T-Shirts and Mugs and other things, like a shower curtain! Just go to my REDBUBBLE portfolio: https://www.redbubble.com/people/palmprints/shop
The nested and concentrically converging numbers of the four 3x3 sub squares that exist within the PalmPrints square made me think of the sides and edges of a pyramid... so I made them into a pyramid that you can print out, tape together into a small pyramid. Download the graphic or this PDF.
By the way... if you want a complete list of the qualifications I was comparing other Magic Squares to, while trying to find one more amazing than the Mathtician 9x9 Magic Square, here it is. Let me know if you find another square that can do everything on this list that isn't the same as The Mathtician Square.
