Pre-previously on Overlord-in-terms-of-Core-Issues-around-Maximal-Engagement-with-Key-Notions-of-the-Über-Feral, I interrogated issues around this shape, the horned triangle:

Horned Triangle (more details)

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Now I want to look at the tricorn (from Latin tri-, “three”, + -corn, “horn”). It’s like a horned triangle, but has three horns instead of one:

Tricorn, or three-horned triangle

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These are the stages that make up the tricorn:

Tricorn (stages)

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Tricorn (animated)

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And there’s no need to stop at triangles. Here is a four-horned square, or quadricorn:

Quadricorn

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Quadricorn (animated)

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Quadricorn (coloured)

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And a five-horned pentagon, or quinticorn:

Quinticorn, or five-horned pentagon

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Quinticorn (anim)

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Quinticorn (col)

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And below are some variants on the shapes above. First, the reversed tricorn:

Reversed Tricorn

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Reversed Tricorn (anim)

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Reversed Tricorn (col)

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The nested tricorn:

Nested Tricorn (anim)

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Nested Tricorn (col)

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Nested Tricorn (red-green)

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Nested Tricorn (variant col)

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The nested quadricorn:

Nested Quadricorn (anim)

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Nested Quadricorn

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Nested Quadricorn (col #1)

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Nested Quadricorn (col #2)

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Finally (and ferally), the pentagonal octopus or pentapus:

Pentapus (anim)

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Pentapus

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Pentapus #2

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Pentapus #3

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Pentapus #4

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Pentapus #5

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Pentapus #6

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Pentapus (col anim)

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Elsewhere other-engageable:

• The Art Grows Onda — the horned triangle and Katsushika Hokusai’s painting The Great Wave off Kanagawa (c. 1830)