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The anatomy of pattern (1894)

Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 48

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entagon for example ? Well, you may puttogether so many pentagons—and a very re-spectable diaper they form—especially if youfurther enrich thepentagons withfive-pointed stars.Not long since Icame upon justsuch a diaper,which, for a mo-ment, promisedto upset all myneatly arrangedtheories on… … Pentagon diaper and its skeleton. 16 The Anatomy of Pattern. pentagons put side by side, the intersticesbetween them ingeniously filled with starsand triangles, much as the pentagons them-selves are filled—so that one does not readilydistinguish the main divisions. It wants notelling that shapes of…

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