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Dynamic symmetry: the Greek vase (1920)

Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924 · New Haven, Yale Univ. Press · leaf 104

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root-five rectangle. CO is a whirling squarerectangle in the root-five shape CD. EB and GF are two root-five rectangles.FI is a 1.809 shape and HI is its major square. GK is a 2.618 shape. The linewhich marks the juncture of neck and bowl is equal inlength to thewidthof thefoot. The diagonal to the… … Fig. 4. Nolan Amphora 10.184, Boston N4useum. shapeof 1.809 ^^^ ^^^ bowl width is exactly one half the height. The meander atthe base of the composition is placed on the half division of the square AB. Thefoot is exactly one-half the width of the square AB. The whirling square rec-tangle…

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