The Circle

CONTENT: 1) Formal Rose Drawing,  2) Tokyo 2020 Olympics, 3) Westfield Circle

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I found this drawing on a website (but I've temporarily mislaid the name to give the artist his credit)

I am making an accurate CAD version that will eventually replace this. It has an iteresting composition of inter-related circles and ellipses

There are so many versions of the formalised Rose (including Rene Mackintosh) that I'm thinking of making a collection of my favourites

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LN: "Can we show the underlying circles first, you'd never think they make a rose!"

B:"Thats right and because of the overlaps of the petals, the the sense of symmetry is disguised"

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This is the Logo for the Tokyo 2O20 Olympics, designed by the 46 year old Asao Tokoro. Its based on the 17th Century craft called 'Ichimatdu Moyo'

Asao won an open competition that was setup because the original design was discarded due to a charge of plagiarism over the first design

Although this image at first sight looks symmetrical , looking in detail reveals it to be far from so!

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LN:"This is weired, its got twitchy Logic!"

B: "Ha ha ha, I like that!"

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Logo for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, designed by the 46 year old Asao Tokoro.

I'm going to analyse the geometry of this very pleasing but very subtle design.

It's symmetrical about the vertical axis and I would have expected it to be more assymetric than the general Olympics image. But its not!

Thre is also a story to tell about the 'Prussian Blue' - the chosen colour invented by Hokasai of the 'Great Wave' fame (1760 - 1849) and representative of the great 17th Century creative EDO period.

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I photographed this circular pattern on the counter in Westfield Shopping Centre in Shepherds Bush

It appears to comprise a basic group of 4 'petals' rotated around the centre eight times, but within that there appear to be a number of inner itricacies to highlight - watch this space, all will be revealed! . . . . .

LN : "I'd like to know why the pairs of "winged eyes" on the outside look so unrelated to the inividual eyes they're made of!"

B : Good question! My guess is that it's the really strong shape of the curved triangle they share - that's what I focus on every time, and how the way they touch at a common tangent means suddenly you can trace the double shape with a single line!

LN : "Oh yes, WOW, that's neat! But look - don't they make the other bits look like wings!"