dily be seen that not only the content of the design itself but the excess areanot occupied by the design, may be expressed in terms of the whole and the twocomposing shapes, namely, the root-four and root-two reciprocals. HQ is a 5° DYNAMIC SYMMETRY square, HL two squares and a root-two rectangle.… … \ \ / y / D / \^ 1 c 1 ■■ 1 ■■ Fig. ID. Fig. II. The design plan of the pyxis in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, de-pends upon a manipulation of the diagonal to the overall shape and to thetwo composing figures, the root-four and root-two reciprocals. The mannerin which this is done discloses an…
Vases, Greek
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