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Dynamic symmetry: the Greek vase (1920)

Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924 · New Haven, Yale Univ. Press · leaf 148

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Fig. 12. Boston Skyphos 01.8032. Skyphos 01.8032 in the Boston Museum, Fig. 12, has a bowl ratio ori.236,and, apparently, an overall area which is a root-three rectangle. Thisis-|only case in over four hundred examples of Greek design where a root-threefigure was apparently used in connection with… … Fig. 13. Yale Skyphos 398 Black-glaze Skyphos 398, at Yale, Fig. 13, has a bowl ratio of 1.236 andan overall area of 1.809. AD is a whirling square rectangle from the 1.809 ^■ea.GB is the diagonal to a square and the point H shows that without its footthe vase is a root-four area. DYNAMIC SYMMETRY

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