Free Fruit of Life Grid Generator
Draw the Fruit of Life instantly with our 100% free grid generator. Set thirteen circles on a hexagonal lattice with all 78 connecting lines a single toggle away over any image, then export SVG or 600 DPI for print and craft in seconds. No signup, no downloads needed. Trusted by 60,000+ artists worldwide.
Thirteen circles, none overlapping
The thirteen complete circles that remain when the Flower of Life is reduced to its non-touching set. Joining their centres is what produces Metatron's Cube.
3 controls, not a fixed picture
Set circle radius and construction step, toggle connecting lines (78). Every one is live on the canvas.
Stacks with sacred geometry & pattern
Overlays combine, each carrying its own transform, so this one can sit under or over flower of life, sri yantra and metatron’s cube, and 15 more in the same set.
The centres are the point
Export as SVG and the thirteen centres stay exactly placed, which is what you need if you intend to construct from them. Raster to 600 DPI otherwise.
| Ctrl + Z | Undo |
| Ctrl + Y | Redo |
| Esc | Deselect overlay |
| Alt + drag | Free positioning (no snap) |
| Ctrl + scroll | Zoom canvas |
| Ctrl + P | |
| ? | Show this help |
One circle, a ring of six, a second ring of six. Join every pair of centres and you have Metatron's Cube — which is why this figure matters more than its thirteen circles suggest.
The Fruit of Life generator draws one of the 82 composition overlays in Grid Maker Pro, and the rest stack on the same image.
- 13 circles
- 78 lines
- SVG + 600 DPI export
- Nothing uploaded
What is the Fruit of Life?
The Fruit of Life generator is a free browser tool that draws thirteen circles arranged on a hexagonal lattice, over any image or blank canvas. One sits at the centre, six around it, and six more in a second ring. A single toggle joins every pair of centres to each other: thirteen points taken two at a time gives exactly 78 lines, and that figure is Metatron's Cube. The circle radius sets the whole figure's scale, and the lines are drawn at reduced opacity so the circles stay readable underneath them.
How to draw the Fruit of Life
Thirteen circles, and then the seventy-eight lines that join every centre to every other. Draw the circles first, add the lines, and Metatron's Cube is what you are left with.
Open the figure
The thirteen circles are placed on the lattice before you adjust anything, which is the part that has to be exact — every centre error propagates into 12 of the 78 lines.
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Set the radius
The circle radius sets the whole figure's size. The centres are stepped at slightly more than two radii, so the circles sit just clear of each other rather than touching, which keeps thirteen outlines legible.
Circle radius · Connecting lines (78)
Add the lines, then export
Turn on the connecting lines when you want Metatron's Cube rather than the circles alone. Export SVG for a cutter or plotter, or a raster at up to 600 DPI.
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What the Fruit of Life Generator does
One centre, two rings of six
Thirteen circles is not an arbitrary count. It is the centre plus the first two complete hexagonal shells — the smallest arrangement in which every circle in the first ring is itself surrounded on the lattice.
Seventy-eight lines, exactly
Thirteen points taken two at a time is 78. That is not an approximation or a stylistic choice — it is the complete graph on thirteen vertices, and it is what Metatron's Cube actually is.
Lines beneath the circles
Seventy-eight lines at full weight is a black disc. They are drawn at reduced opacity so the circles read through them, which is the difference between a diagram you can follow and a dense scribble.
Circles clear, not touching
The centres are stepped at a fraction over two radii, so neighbouring circles sit just clear of one another. Tangent circles merge visually at small sizes; separated ones stay countable, which matters on a figure whose whole point is a count.
Over your own work
Its own transform, so the lattice can be rotated onto a photographed surface or scaled into a layout without moving what is beneath it.
Vector out
SVG export keeps thirteen circles as true circles and 78 lines as true lines. Raster export is sized from the paper format and DPI you choose, up to 600.
Fruit of Life examples: four ways the figure reads
Fruit of Life vs a downloaded graphic vs compass and straightedge
| Option | Thirteen centres on the lattice | All 78 lines | Vector export | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grid Maker Prothis tool | Yesby construction | Yesand at reduced weight | SVG + raster to 600 DPI | Free |
| A downloaded graphic | Usually, unknown provenance | Often the wrong count | Sometimes | Free or paid |
| Compass and straightedge | Yesthe radius steps six times | By hand, 78 times | No | A great deal of time |
| A drawing program by hand | Yeswith snapping | Yeswith patience | Yes | Subscription |
Who the Fruit of Life is for: figures whose content is a count
How the Fruit of Life works — Why thirteen, why seventy-eight, and what the figure actually contains
The Fruit of Life is presented as a mystical object and is more interesting as a combinatorial one. Of the 82 composition overlays it is the one whose two numbers, thirteen and seventy-eight, each have an exact reason. Thirteen circles and seventy-eight lines are both exact numbers with exact reasons, and the relationship between this figure and Metatron's Cube is a definition rather than an interpretation.
Start with one circle. Surround it with six more, centres on a hexagonal lattice — that is the arrangement a compass produces naturally, since a circle's radius steps around its own circumference six times. Add a second ring of six on the same lattice and you have thirteen.
Thirteen is where the count stops for a reason that is structural rather than symbolic: it is the smallest arrangement in which every circle of the first ring is itself completely surrounded. Go further and you get a larger patch of the same lattice with nothing new in it. Stop earlier and the figure is incomplete in a way you can see.
Thirteen circles is not a mystical number. It is the point at which the pattern has said everything it is going to say.
Seventy-eight is a calculation, not a claim
Join every centre to every other centre. Thirteen points taken two at a time is thirteen times twelve over two — 78. That is the complete graph on thirteen vertices, and it is exactly what the figure called Metatron's Cube is: the Fruit of Life with all its centres joined.
So the relationship between the two figures is a definition. The Fruit of Life is the circles; Metatron's Cube is the circles plus the 78 lines. Anyone describing them as separate traditions or as different discoveries has lost the thread — one is the other with a step performed.
The count is worth carrying because it is checkable. If a drawing you are shown has a different number of lines, it is either incomplete or it has added lines that are not chords of the thirteen centres, and either way it is not the figure it claims to be.
What is genuinely in the line figure
The claim in circulation is that all five Platonic solids are readable out of Metatron's Cube. That is partly true and worth stating precisely: the 78 lines do contain two-dimensional projections of the tetrahedron, cube and octahedron quite directly, because those solids project onto the hexagonal lattice the centres sit on.
The dodecahedron and icosahedron are the contested pair. They are five-fold solids, and the figure has no five-fold symmetry anywhere — its whole structure is six-fold. Diagrams that extract them do so by selecting sub-sets of lines and adding others that are not chords of the thirteen centres. It is a construction laid over the figure rather than one found inside it.
None of which makes the figure less worth drawing. A complete graph on a hexagonal lattice is a genuinely beautiful object with a great deal of structure in it — the point is only that the structure it has is six-fold, and claims requiring five-fold symmetry are claims about a different figure.
The circles are separated on purpose
The centres are stepped at a little over two radii rather than exactly two, so neighbouring circles sit just clear instead of touching. That is a legibility decision. Tangent circles read as a single merged outline at small sizes, and this is a figure whose whole content is a count — thirteen has to be countable.
It also distinguishes this figure from what the Egg of Life generator draws, whose seven circles are placed at exactly two radii, and from the line set the Metatron's cube generator lays over these same centres and therefore do touch, and from the Seed of Life, whose seven circles are placed at one radius and overlap heavily. Three figures, three spacings, three quite different objects, and the spacing is the whole difference.
Working with the line figure
For anything printed or cut, decide early whether you want the circles, the lines or both, because they want different treatments. The circles are an outline drawing and survive at almost any weight. The 78 lines are a dense field, and at full opacity over a small area they fill in solid — which is why the overlay drops their opacity rather than leaving that to you to discover.
For cutting, export SVG and take the lines alone. Seventy-eight straight paths cut cleanly; thirteen circles cut cleanly; the two together produce a large number of tiny closed regions that will fall out of the work. That is the practical reason most physical Metatron's Cubes are the line figure only.
And for teaching, use the construction step. Centre, first ring, second ring, then the lines — watching 78 chords appear across thirteen points is the moment the figure stops being decorative and becomes arithmetic, which is the more durable understanding.
Choosing a radius that survives the process
The circle radius control sets everything, and the useful way to choose it is backwards from your output. Thirteen circles at a fraction over two radii apart means the whole figure spans a little over four diameters across, so a figure that must fit a 100mm blank has circles of about 12mm radius and lines crossing at every scale between.
That matters because the 78 lines are not evenly distributed. Near the centre they crowd — the middle circle has twelve chords passing through its immediate neighbourhood — while near the rim they fan out. If your process has a minimum feature size, the centre is where you will hit it first, and it is worth checking there rather than at the edge where everything looks comfortable.
For screen work none of this applies and you can push the radius as small as you like. For anything cut, etched, fired or engraved, set the radius from the centre outward and let the overall size land where it lands. The Fruit of Life overlay page works through the sequence, beside the rest of the sacred-geometry catalogue.
Where the Fruit of Life gets used
The line figure, cut in brass. Thirteen circles and seventy-eight lines together would leave the piece in fragments, so the circles stay on the drawing and only the lines get cut.
It is the commonest request I get after the merkaba, and the freehand versions always have the wrong number of lines. Having 78 by construction is the difference between the figure and an impression of it.
I use it to introduce the complete graph. Thirteen points, seventy-eight edges, and the students compute it before they draw it.
Fruit of Life: frequently asked questions
The geometry
Why thirteen circles?
Because it is the smallest arrangement on a hexagonal lattice in which every circle of the first ring is itself completely surrounded — one centre, a ring of six, a second ring of six. Add more and you get a bigger patch of the same lattice with nothing new in it.
Why seventy-eight lines?
Thirteen points taken two at a time: 13 × 12 ÷ 2 = 78. It is the complete graph on thirteen vertices, and it is a calculation rather than a stylistic count — a drawing with a different number is either incomplete or has added lines that are not chords of the centres.
What is the relationship to Metatron's Cube?
A definition, not an interpretation. The Fruit of Life is the thirteen circles; Metatron's Cube is those circles with all 78 centre-to-centre lines drawn. One is the other with a step performed, and the overlay's line toggle is exactly that step.
Can all five Platonic solids really be found in it?
Partly. The tetrahedron, cube and octahedron project quite directly onto the hexagonal lattice the centres sit on, so those readings are genuine. The dodecahedron and icosahedron are five-fold solids and the figure has no five-fold symmetry anywhere — extracting them requires adding lines that are not chords of the thirteen centres.
Why are the circles not touching?
The centres are stepped at a little over two radii on purpose, so neighbouring circles sit just clear. Tangent circles merge into one outline at small sizes, and this is a figure whose content is a count — thirteen has to stay countable.
How does it differ from the Seed and the Egg of Life?
Only in spacing and count, which is the whole difference. The Seed of Life places seven circles one radius apart, so they overlap heavily. The Egg of Life places seven exactly two radii apart, so they touch. The Fruit places thirteen a fraction over two radii apart, so they sit clear.
Why are the lines drawn faint?
Because seventy-eight lines at full weight over a small area fill in solid, and the circles disappear underneath them. Reduced opacity keeps both readable, which is the difference between a diagram you can follow and a dense scribble.
Should I cut both the circles and the lines?
Not for most work. Together they produce a large number of tiny closed regions that fall out of the work. Most physical versions are the line figure alone, which is why the toggle exists — export SVG with just the part you are cutting.
Using it
What does the construction step control show?
The figure being built rather than arriving complete — circle by circle, in the order a compass puts them down. It is the difference between a diagram of the Fruit of Life and an explanation of it, and it is the setting to use if you are teaching or learning the construction.
Should I turn the 78 connecting lines on?
Only when you want Metatron's Cube. Thirteen circles read clearly; adding all 78 chords between their centres fills every gap and turns a legible figure into a dense web. Draw the circles, then add the lines to show where the Cube comes from.
Export and print
Can I export it as an SVG?
Yes, and it is the right export here. Thirteen true circles and 78 true lines scale to any size; a raster version of 78 crossing lines turns to mud at print resolution. Raster export goes to 600 DPI at your chosen paper size.
Can I cut this on a laser or vinyl cutter?
Yes, and SVG is the format for it — the circles come across as real arcs rather than as polygons, which is what a cutter needs to produce a smooth curve. Decide before exporting whether you are cutting the circles, the lines, or both; all 78 lines make a fragile cut.
What size can I print it?
Up to 600 DPI at any paper format from A5 to A2. Thirteen circles are a forgiving subject for print — there is no fine detail to lose — so the practical limit is your printer rather than the export.
Choosing a grid
Should I start with the Seed of Life instead?
If you are learning the family, yes. The Seed of Life generator draws seven circles, the figure the others are built from; the Fruit is thirteen and is where Metatron's Cube comes from. Working up through Seed, Egg of Life generator and Fruit makes the lattice obvious in a way that starting here does not.
Practical matters
Does my image get uploaded?
No. Everything happens in your browser — the image is drawn to a canvas on your own device and never sent anywhere.
Can I use it for a commissioned piece?
Yes. The figure is traditional and unowned, exports carry no watermark and the terms leave your work with you. The advantage over a downloaded graphic is that this one is computed, so it is geometrically exact at any size.
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