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Dynamic symmetry; the Greek vase (1920)

Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924, Yale University. Rutherford Trowbridge memorial publication fund · New Haven, Conn., and New York city, Yale university press; [etc., etc.] · leaf 180

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DYNAMIC SYMMETRY 133 One of these root-five shapes fixes the details of the foot. Many other arrange- ments of the encompassing area could be made. For example; 1.2764 is com- posed of .7236 plus .5528. .7236 is the reciprocal of 1.382, .5528 is the reciprocal of 1.809, 1.2764 plus .7236 equals 2.… … Fig. 12. Black-figured Lekythos 06.1021.60, Metropolitan Museum, New York. (Measured and drawn by the Museum Staff.) of the greatest value to designers. All of these areas may be readily determined with a scale, and after the forms are studied, fixed by construction. Lekythos G. R. 540 in the New…

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