Are these real paths of planets as traced from Earth? Few days a go, I came across these two pictures of paths of planets as observed from Earth. They have a perfect geometric shapes.  Actually, to me they look so beautiful and perfect, that they appear fake or made by a pseudo-scientist or some propaganda society (e.g. flat Earth like community people) who talks about divine geometry etc. 

Auxiliary questions: Is this the reason, why Earth was consider to be in the center of the solar system?
From this answer here are views of the inner and outer planets. I used the python package Skyfield which uses the NASA JPL ephemerides to generate positions of all the planets, then I subtracted the Earth's position to generate the geocentric positions.
I agree with your guess that the first image is too perfect.
The paths will not be closed, because there is not a rational number relationship (e.g. 5:9, 2:3, 1:1) between the periods of the planets.
The ones in the image are reminiscent of the Spirograph drawings I used to make a very long time ago.


...plotting using the Python package Skyfield.
The &quot;inner&quot; plotted bodies (from outer to inner) are Mars, (Earth), Moon, Venus, Mercury, The Sun. The data is for 2000 days.
The &quot;outer&quot; plotted bodies are Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, Earth, and The Sun. The data is for 2000 months.
Distances are in AU.