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Urban Visions | Symmetry | Symmetrical Bonus
A few thoughts about symmetry
By Roy Hickling
A study once created a computer generated face, its features amalgamated from a couple of dozen models. When asked to choose the most beautiful amongst all of these images, people invariably chose the artificial, homogenized, perfectly symmetrical face. We are attracted to this ideal – we look for it.
Yet Symmetry By definition doesn’t exist. If all points opposite a center must have an exact counterpoint to create symmetry, then what about that single point at the center?
Symmetrical sound waves cancel each other out to silence. However flirting with the border of this Event or phasing sound waves creates a pleasing effect.
The tension developed as symmetry wavers to the asymmetrical is far more interesting than any construct of perfection, no matter where we seek it.
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