A circular pattern obtained by superposing parallel equally spaced lines on a set of concentric circles of increasing radii, then coloring the regions in chessboard fashion. The pattern appeared on the cover of early editions of Scripta Mathematica.
Circular Chessboard
See also
Chessboard, Möbius Net, Nested PolygonExplore with Wolfram|Alpha
References
Gardner, M. The Sixth Book of Mathematical Games from Scientific American. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, pp. 243-245 and 249-251, 1984.Referenced on Wolfram|Alpha
Circular ChessboardCite this as:
Weisstein, Eric W. "Circular Chessboard." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/CircularChessboard.html