#include
int main()
{ int n,i,j;
scanf("%d",&n);
for(i=0; i { for(j=0; j printf(" "); for(j=0; j<2*i+1; j++) printf(j%2==0?"* ":" "); printf("\n"); } for(i=n-2; i>=0; i--) { for(j=0; j printf(" "); for(j=0; j<2*i+1; j++) printf(j%2==0?"* ":" "); printf("\n"); } return 0; }