Pretty pictures of geometries (Q1281150)

The author presents four construction principles that allow to produce many beautiful planes and spatial models of the most important small finite geometries. The first rule is ``number right \(\to\) everything right''. It means that there is given a small, highly symmetrical geometry with \(n\) points, and we look for the same number of points arranged into a highly symmetrical spatial object. The second one is ``subset geometries''. There is given a subset geometry on \(| O|=n\) points and we try to translate automorphisms of symmetrical arrangements of \(n\) points in the plane or in space into ``good'' models of geometry which exhibit as many of these automorphisms as possible. The third construction principle is ``subgeometry \(\to\) full geometry''. We try to extend ``good'' models of subgeometries of a given geometry to a good model of the full geometry. The last construction principle is ``geometry \(\to\) subgeometry''. We try to find models of subgeometries of a given geometry, ``right in the middle'' of a good model of the geometry.