setting up rithmomachia pieces using patterns

This is a rithmomachia lesson on the ingenious patterns that the values make between the pieces when they are in their initial position, using Blender. Hats off to those extremely clever medieval monks who created this game in the first place over 1000 years ago!

selected rithmomachia fireteams

More about rithmomachia is here: rithmomachia page, including various links. Here's a little video I made almost entirely from a Python program I wrote: When the code is polished a little more, I'll put it on the github site. Another animation:

In this rithmomachia game, where the computer played itself, even/black wins, a proper victory by geometrical progression --- the winning pieces are t^16, s^28, s^49.