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Dynamic symmetry: the Greek vase (1920)

Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924 · New Haven, Yale Univ. Press · leaf 118

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dividedby two. JK is a root-five rectangle. LM is a whirling square rectangle in thesquare RM. Every detail of the vase may be expressed in terms of the majorshape. Anearlyblack-figuredkrater,o7.286.76,Fig. 13,in the Metropolitan Museum,New York, is an illustration of extreme distortion in a… … Fig. 13. happened in baking. The widths at all points are true with a center line. If thewidth of the bowl be taken as the side of a square, this square is shown in thedrawing as DE, and if the sides of the square be produced to the extremitiesof the handles, as A and C, then the areas AB, BC,…

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