As 15 = 3 × 5, a product of distinct Fermat primes, a regular pentadecagon is constructible using compass and straightedge: The following constructions of regular pentadecagons with given circumcircle are similar to the illustration of the proposition XVI in Book IV of Euclid's Elements. Compare the construction according Euclid in this image: In the construction for given circumcircle: is a side of equilateral triangle and is a side of a regular pentagon. The point divides the radius in golden ratio: Compared with the first animation are in the following two images the two circular arcs rotated 90° counterclockwise shown. They do not use the segment, but rather they use segment as radius for the second circular arc. A compass and straightedge construction for a given side length. The construction is nearly equal to that of the pentagon at a given side, then also the presentation is succeed by extension one side and it generates a segment, here which is divided according to the golden ratio: Circumradius Side length Angle
Symmetry
The regular pentadecagon has Dih15dihedral symmetry, order 30, represented by 15 lines of reflection. Dih15 has 3 dihedral subgroups: Dih5, Dih3, and Dih1. And four more cyclic symmetries: Z15, Z5, Z3, and Z1, with Zn representing π/n radian rotational symmetry. On the pentadecagon, there are 8 distinct symmetries. John Conway labels these symmetries with a letter and order of the symmetry follows the letter. He gives r30 for the full reflective symmetry, Dih15. He gives d with reflection lines through vertices, p with reflection lines through edges, and for the odd-sided pentadecagon i with mirror lines through both vertices and edges, and g for cyclic symmetry. a1 labels no symmetry. These lower symmetries allows degrees of freedoms in defining irregular pentadecagons. Only the g15 subgroup has no degrees of freedom but can seen as directed edges.
Pentadecagrams
There are three regular star polygons:,,, constructed from the same 15 vertices of a regular pentadecagon, but connected by skipping every second, fourth, or seventh vertex respectively. There are also three regular star figures:,,, the first being a compound of three pentagons, the second a compound of five equilateral triangles, and the third a compound of three pentagrams. The compound figure can be loosely seen as the two-dimensional equivalent of the 3D compound of five tetrahedra.
Deeper truncations of the regular pentadecagon and pentadecagrams can produce isogonal intermediate star polygon forms with equal spaced vertices and two edge lengths.
