Twelve Highly Accurate Geometric Models of Planetary Orbits in our Solar System (ray-traced artwork by Bruce Rawles with background imagery by NASA and photography by Bruce Rawles) The Martineau Solar System Series consists of 12 ray-traced images inspired by the remarkable work of geometer John Martineau, in ” A Little Book of Coincidence“. I think Martineau will (someday, hopefully soon!) be heralded among Kepler, Galileo, Newton, and Einstein for the astronomical discoveries he’s made. I HIGHLY recommend John’s book if you haven’t seen it. In it, he details dozens of astonishingly accurate and simple geometrical models of our solar system that I imagine will become grade school classics for teaching the relative spacing of planets. These simple models use circles, triangles, squares, pentagrams, hexagrams, octagrams, and a few 3D models. I had the privilege of meeting John in the summer of 2004, and learned of his Neptune/Uranus model (too new to be in his book) which uses a tetrahedron and truncated tetrahedron, respectively; the new (Neptune/Uranus) model appears as the image for February. This model is in the 99%+ accuracy range, like all the others. If Kepler had only known how close his original concept in Mysterium Cosmographicum was to nesting polyhedra… He was on the right track! The other two images (not in Martineau's book as such) are composites of his various models and appear as the January and August images for the outer and inner solar system respectively. They feature a background tiling of Kirlian photos I took many years ago. For books, calendars, blog posts, and much more about sacred geometry and interconnectedness visit GeometryCode.com