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concept:alhambra-planAlhambra Plan
The plan of the Alhambra palace, used as a key example of local symmetries without overall symmetry—wildly asymmetrical overall yet full of local symmetries at many levels, creating organic wholeness adapted to site
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- Local Symmetriesassociated_withThe property that living wholes contain many interlocking and overlapping local symmetries rather than overall symmetry; local symmetries act as glue holding space together, and their number predicts cognitive coherence
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- The chapter that catalogs and analyzes the fifteen recurrent geometric properties found in systems that have life, connecting them to the deeper theory of centers and wholeness
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- The primary historical artifact studied; a palace in Granada, Spain containing abundant frieze and wallpaper geometric patterns.
- A fragment of tilework from the Alhambra used to illustrate recursion of centers and mutual helping.
- The four green hexagons forming a cross around the star-octagon, intensifying its life.
- The larger eight-pointed star in the tile pattern, used in the five-step sequence to show increasing life.
- Empirical game-theory benchmark with a pilot task on scarce resource allocation through multi-round auctions, cited.
- Author's qualitative observation of unequal distribution of frieze types
- A financial tool used from the earliest design stage, specifying percentage allocations to different work categories to shape the building's feeling.
- Palace in Seville, Spain; Bodner also studied frieze patterns there to verify findings.