How to draw the pattern?

Question

*********
***. ***
*. *

Answer 1

In which language?

Answer 2

What would the pattern look like if the length of the topmost string is even? Does the padding before the asterisk matter? How about the padding between the asterisk and the `.`?

I'd like to have a go at it as an exercise.

Answer 3

Then take it 10

Answer 4

Java