AI finds bafflingly complex but beautiful symmetrical Venn diagram

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Creating rotationally symmetrical Venn diagrams of increasing size is a long-standing mathematical challenge - now an amateur has used AI to generate the largest ones yet…

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  • Reported by New Scientist and published Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:40:13 UTC.

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