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Dynamic symmetry: the Greek vase (1920)

Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924 · New Haven, Yale Univ. Press · leaf 168

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s two squares. The coordination ot detail to the whole shape is entirely bydiagonals of square and root-two. An early black-figured dinos, 13.^05 in the Boston Museum, Fig. 5, is a staticexample. The curve of this vase, however, is interesting because it shows clearlywhat, in the writers opinion,… … Fig. 4. Lekythos 06.1021.125, Metropolitan Museum, New York.(Measured and drawn by the Museum Staff.) DYNAMIC SYMMETRY 127 intersection of the diagonal to two and one-half squares, AS, with the diagonalof the square GH. EH and FG are diagonals to two squares, F and E beingmidway between AH and AG.…

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