Reconstruction of the
2022 Hackpen Hill White Horse formation
1. Draw a circle. Draw the horizontal and vertical centerlines.
2. Construct the inscribed pentagon (regular 5-sided polygon) of circle 1, pointing to the right.
3. Construct the inscribed pentagon of circle 1, pointing to the left.
4. Number the angular points of pentagons 2 and 3 clockwise 1 to 10, starting at the righthand one of pentagon 2.

Draw the diagonal between angular points 1 and 8, and repeat this nine times for all other corresponding pairs of angular points.
5. Construct a circle centered at the intersection of diagonal 4, 7-10, and the vertical centerline, passing through the intersection of this diagonal and diagonal 1-8.
6. Copy circle 5 to the center of circle 1.
7. Draw the connecting line between the righthand intersection of circle 6 with the horizontal centerline and the intersection of diagonals 1-8 and 2-9, and extend this line upto circle 1.
8. Draw the connecting line between the center of circle 1 and its intersection with line 7.
9. Draw the connecting line between the intersection of circle 6 with line 8 and the righthand intersection of circle 5 with diagonal 7-10.
10.

Remove from diagonal 7-10, and lines 8 and 9, all redundant parts, such that the shown pattern remains.
11. Repeat all necessary steps to copy pattern 10, and rotate it around the center of circle 1, nine times, with respect to all other angular points 4.
12. Circle 1, and patterns 10 and 11, make up the final reconstruction.
13. Colour all areas corresponding to standing...
14. ...or to flattened crop, and finish the reconstruction of the 2022 Hackpen Hill White Horse formation.
15.

The final result, matched with two aerial images.
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