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Dynamic symmetry; the Greek vase (1920)

Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924, Yale University. Rutherford Trowbridge Memorial Publication Fund · New Haven, Conn., New York City, Yale University Press; [etc., etc.] · leaf 70

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DYNAMIC SYMMETRY S'O square, HL two squares and a root-two rectangle. The application of this area to the square HO leaves the area CL, a root-two rectangle. HA is a root-two rectangle. The application of the square HQ leaves the area CA, a square and a root-two rectangle. … I'iii. 1 1. Fie. lo. 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 the two composing figures, the root-four and root-two reciprocals. The manner in which this is done discloses an interesting feature of…

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