In the beginning

there was ...

G.O.D.

Graphic Object

Designer

on the 1st day, G.O.D. created…

a

POINT

it had no size, shape or color

I’m just a

representation

of a point!

only a location

(4,7)

but G.O.D. thought:

that’s a

boring

point

so he personalized her

Hi!

you can call

me point ‘P’

but P was lonely

P

so G.O.D. filled the PLANE with points

not this

kind of

plane

but it was too

much for P

INFINITE

# of points

so he LINEd them all up

infinitely

long

(no width)

P

P was happy with her new friends

Q T

Line QT

( QT )

P

and started hugging them …

Q T

P

I made an

OBTUSE

ANGEL!

QPT

you mean an obtuse

ANGLE ?

THIS is an angel

oh

and hugged…

Pall RIGHT!

(angle)

Pnow this is

ACUTE

angel!

and hugged some more…

no, THIS is!

… until they were all arRAYed!

P

ray PQ

(PQ)

Q

points past Q were too far from P

Q

S A D

P

so they split

S A D

leaving

close-knit

SEGMENT

PQ

P Q

their segment was inseparable

P

ENDPOINTS

Q

they TRANSLATED around the plane

hooked up with 2 other segments

P Q

U

PUQ

and called their TRIANGLE gang:

U

5” 5”

5”

the

EQUILATERALS!

P Q

they developed a strong bond

and

became

known

as:

the strongest

POLYGON

ever!

they were in big demand

they got to travel

the world

be PATRIOTIC

they were very popular

P Q

U

could we

join you?

sure!

they were very popular

P Q

U

cool!R

and formed a QUADRILATERAL

P Q

U R

with 4 CONGRUENT sides

we’re

special!

a RHOMBUS!

but the

angels aren’t

congruent!

ahhh, an

EQUILATERAL, EQ

UIANGULAR

QUADRILATERAL!

a shorter

name, maybe?

how about:

“REGULAR

QUADRILATERAL”

?

better!

we’re

SQUARE!

they kept coming …

room

for us?

of

course!

5 sides: PENTAGON

they kept coming …

and coming …

6 sides: HEXAGON

and coming …

8 sides: OCTAGON

and coming …

10 sides: DECAGON

we’re all

REGULAR!

and coming …

12 sides: DODECAGON

so

what’s the

name for 13

sides?

a “13-gon”

… until they had an infinite # of sides!

sides: CIRCLE

an

-gon !?

P was excited

the most perfect object

I’ve ever created!so was GODwe’re all

‘r’ from the

center!!r

it was a whole new, curvy world!

weeee!

she tried

some

other

curves

got spiritual

holy

god!

yes?

and as P followed her rainbow

HolyG

od!

she met her soulpoint … Ray!

HolyG

od!

and they went off to do a little ‘geometry’

HolyG

od!

Amen!

credits

HolyG

od!

music

Theme from: 2001, A Space Odyssey

En Douce – French Café

Quartet in C Major – Franz Joseph Hayden

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