Does anyone know what this shape is called?

[GarryP]

I’ve done an image search and the best I can come up with is “orange peel”, or maybe “feathered diamond”, neither of which sounds quite right.
Does anyone know if there is a better name for it?
Even better, does anyone know if there are any ‘standards’ regarding how it should be drawn in certain cases?

(I know this isn’t strictly an Affinity-related question but I drew it with Designer.)

[Optische Ausrichtung]

it is the inner part of a circular rosette with 4 petals ... 
that's how I would draw it

 

[Alfred]

I can see where ‘orange peel’ comes from, but ‘feathered diamond’?? I found the latter (without explanation of its relevance) and also ‘bouquet of circles’.

As for standards regarding how it should be drawn, I’m not sure what standards are needed. It’s just two pairs of back-to-back semicircles, isn’t it?

[PixelPest]

GarryP möchte einen Namen

GarryP wants a name for it.

[GarryP]

Thanks for the answers so far.
I only asked as I’ve seen similar shapes/designs in various places but was just wondering what it was called so I could search for it.
(I drew my version with a Crescent Shape rotated a few times.)

[PaulEC]

48 minutes ago, GarryP said:

Does anyone know if there is a better name for it?

Geometric Petals / Flower ?

[GarryP]

11 minutes ago, PaulEC said:

Geometric Petals / Flower

Quite possibly.
I’m sure I’ve seen this design on gravestones, inside churches and non-religious places.
It’s something that has been carved into things so I thought it might have a name so that people can sure about what they mean when they say, for example: “I want a <thingy> at each corner of this.” Just so the wrong thing doesn’t get carved and it’s then spoiled.

[PixelPest]

If you´re going through glyphs palettes it could be: 4 PETALLED BLACK AND WHITE FLORETTE or 4 PETALLED OUTLINED FLORETTE  🥴

From what I know this stands for Orange Peel:

[thomaso]

Since it's a floral shape a biological term might fit as keyword, e.g. "actinomorphic"

[GarryP]

“Florette” sounds good so that’s something for me to look for. Thanks.

The online Merriam Webster dictionary defines “actinomorphic” as “radially symmetrical and capable of division by any longitudinal plane into essentially symmetrical halves” which is what my shape is, essentially, so that’s another good jumping-off point. Thanks.

I was hoping that there might be a ‘less-scientific’ 'olde-worlde' way of referring to it, but I’ve got to go with what I’ve got.

[Old Bruce]

fleuron 

[Gear maker]

I find a unicode 1f668   that is called a Hollow Quilt Square Ornament but that's not too common a name either. 

[markw]

Try looking up quatrefoil Garry.
What you have there are the leftover intersecting lines of four circles, typical when setting out quatrefoils.

[thomaso]

21 minutes ago, GarryP said:

‘less-scientific’ 'olde-worlde'

Since there are several parameters that matter to describe this shape precisely (number + lenght(s) + angles), a less scientific term, e.g. "flower" or "point-symmetrical petals", might meet it but would not have a chance to be unambiguous / sufficiently accurate. (compare: "quadrilateral" –> rectangle, square, parallelogram, rhombus, ... / or daily but possibly complex objects like "table", "chair", "dish" etc)

[Alfred]

37 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

fleuron

For what little it’s worth, this is what I think of when I see the word ‘fleuron’:

❦

[PixelPest]

9 minutes ago, markw said:

What you have there are the leftover intersecting lines of four circles, typical when setting out quatrefoils.

I´m 99% sure it´s not made by 4 semicircles but 4 "orange peels".

 

[Alfred]

15 minutes ago, PixelPest said:

I´m 99% sure it´s not made by 4 semicircles but 4 "orange peels".

Here’s the other 1%:

[PixelPest]

Sorry - not even close:

[NotMyFault]

41 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Here’s the other 1%:

You need 8 semi-cycles. 

[PixelPest]

Or 1 altered circle 4 times.

[Wosven]

3 hours ago, GarryP said:

this design on gravestones, inside churches

I would have answered it's a cross symbol, with a specific name probably. I think I aalready saw it in a font... about crosses, symbols? Not sure. Perhaps it was just a designer's fantaisy, he loves this shape...

[Alfred]

3 hours ago, PixelPest said:

Sorry - not even close:

OK, so you need to squash them a little to make them slightly elliptical, but the principle is the same. As you yourself observed subsequently:

1 hour ago, PixelPest said:

Or 1 altered circle 4 times.

 

[PixelPest]

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OK, so you need to squash them a little to make them slightly elliptical, but the principle is the same. As you yourself observed subsequently:

Nope. 😉

[thomaso]

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Principle, squashed:

It's simply a straight line, bent a little and folded 4x 🤓

[markw]

5 hours ago, GarryP said:

Thanks for the answers so far.
I only asked as I’ve seen similar shapes/designs in various places but was just wondering what it was called so I could search for it.
(I drew my version with a Crescent Shape rotated a few times.)

From what Garry has said earlier he made his posted version using the Crescent tool, inspired by traditional designes he had seen out in the real world. Which I think is why his example has those slightly pointed intersections. In the real world you would set it out with just compasses and call it a quatrefoil.