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Dynamic symmetry: the Greek vase (1920)

Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924 · New Haven, Yale Univ. Press · leaf 149

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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 … Fig. 14. Skyphos 06.1079, Metropolitan Museum, New York. A skyphos from the New York Museum, Fig. 14, has a bowl ratio of 1.236and an overall area of 1.809. AB is a whirling square shape from the bowlwhile EC is a similar figure from the 1.809 iatio.

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