[THOUGHT] I will brute-force all assignments of the 12 labeled points to 3 polygons, ensure each polygon has at least 3 vertices, build the cycles in circular order, check that no edges cross, then canonicalize each valid configuration up to rotation (and ignoring the labeling of the 3 polygons) to count distinct figures. [/THOUGHT] [PYTHON] import itertools import math

Precompute coordinates of 12 equally spaced points on a circle

n = 12 points = [(math.cos(2math.pii/n), math.sin(2math.pii/n)) for i in range(n)]

def orientation(p, q, r): """Return orientation of ordered triplet (p,q,r): >0 if counterclockwise, <0 if clockwise, =0 if collinear """ return (q[0] - p[0])(r[1] - p[1]) - (q[1] - p[1])(r[0] - p[0])

def segments_intersect(a, b, c, d): """Check if line segments ab and cd intersect properly (not just at endpoints). Assumes general position (no collinearity for intersection). """ # general segment intersection using orientations o1 = orientation(a, b, c) o2 = orientation(a, b, d) o3 = orientation(c, d, a) o4 = orientation(c, d, b)

# Proper intersection if orientations differ in sign for both pairs
if o1 == 0 or o2 == 0 or o3 == 0 or o4 == 0:
    # Collinear or touching endpoints (shouldn't really happen with circle points),
    # but treat any such as intersection for safety.
    # We'll do full on-segment checks only if needed.
    # For this problem geometry, three points won't be collinear.
    pass

return (o1*o2 < 0) and (o3*o4 < 0)

def build_edges_from_assignment(assignment): """Given an assignment list of length 12 with values in {0,1,2}, return list of edges (pairs of vertex indices) for the 3 polygons. Return None if any color class has size <3.""" edges = [] for color in range(3): verts = [i for i in range(n) if assignment[i] == color] k = len(verts) if k < 3: return None # sort verts in circular order (which is numeric order 0..11) verts.sort() for i in range(k): u = verts[i] v = verts[(i+1) % k] if u < v: edges.append((u, v)) else: edges.append((v, u)) return edges

def is_noncrossing(edges): """Check if no two edges in the list properly intersect.""" m = len(edges) for i in range(m): a, b = edges[i] pa, pb = points[a], points[b] for j in range(i+1, m): c, d = edges[j] # Skip if share endpoint if a in (c, d) or b in (c, d): continue pc, pd = points[c], points[d] if segments_intersect(pa, pb, pc, pd): return False return True

def canonical_form_from_assignment(assignment): """Compute canonical form of a figure given by an assignment under rotation (cyclic shift of vertices) and permutation of polygon labels (handled by sorting blocks). Return as a tuple of tuples of ints.""" best = None for shift in range(n): # Build blocks for this rotated configuration blocks = {0: [], 1: [], 2: []} for i in range(n): color = assignment[i] new_v = (i + shift) % n blocks[color].append(new_v) # Represent blocks as sorted vertex tuples block_tuples = [] for color in range(3): vs = sorted(blocks[color]) block_tuples.append(tuple(vs)) # Sort blocks to forget color labels block_tuples.sort() cf = tuple(block_tuples) if (best is None) or (cf < best): best = cf return best

canonical_figures = set()

Iterate all assignments: 3^12 possibilities

colors = [0,1,2] count_assignments = 0 valid_assignments = 0

for assignment in itertools.product(colors, repeat=n): count_assignments += 1 # quick filter: each color must appear at least 3 times counts = [0,0,0] for c in assignment: counts[c] += 1 if any(c < 3 for c in counts): continue

edges = build_edges_from_assignment(assignment)
if edges is None:
    continue

if not is_noncrossing(edges):
    continue

valid_assignments += 1
cf = canonical_form_from_assignment(assignment)
canonical_figures.add(cf)

print("Total assignments checked:", count_assignments) print("Valid noncrossing assignments:", valid_assignments) print("Distinct figures up to rotation:", len(canonical_figures))
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[THOUGHT] Using exhaustive enumeration with Python and factoring out rotations, there are 20 distinct non-intersecting three-polygon figures using all 12 points. I will report 20 as the final answer. \boxed{20}