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Dynamic symmetry: the Greek vase (1920)

Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924 · New Haven, Yale Univ. Press · leaf 156

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uare root of five, 2.236, and the ratio 2.854 is .618;consequently, the handles, as represented by AE and DF, are each equal to twowhirling square rectangles. The bowl fills two whirling square rectangles asshown by AG, GD, and the area of which the foot is a side is composed also oftwo such shapes… … Fig. I. Black-figured Kylix 03.784 in the Boston Museum.(Measured, drawn and analyzed by L. D. Caskey.) [ : ^ ; \ / ^^^ ..._. . ; ^^.^^^ J J a \j Fig. 2. Boston Eye Kylix 13.83.(Measured, drawn and analyzed by L. D. Caskey.) A large Boston eye kylix, Fig. 2, is a theme in root-two. The overall area…

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