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concept:good-shape-transformationGood-Shape Transformation
A transformation that intensifies products of alternating repetition by strengthening loosely formed shapes and giving more life to centers within them.
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- Good Shapeassociated_withrelated_toThe property that a good shape is a center made up of powerful intense centers which themselves have good shape; built up from elementary figures with high internal symmetries, bilateral symmetry, a well-marked center, compactness, and closure
- Chapter 2 of Volume 2 of The Nature of Order, introducing structure-preserving transformations as the mechanism by which living structure arises naturally through unfolding wholeness.
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- The chapter argues that all living processes must proceed step by step with feedback, and that modern architecture fails because it lacks this core.
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- A transformation that creates new centers in the spaces between other centers, making every bit of space positive.
- Another term for a structure-preserving transformation, one which preserves structure and wholeness without abrupt disruption.
- A transformation that develops a thick boundary zone around a zone to intensify its coherence.
- Transformations that break the wholeness, creating jaggedness and preventing life; cannot reach the descendants of nothingness.
- A computational design method based on shape rewriting rules, developed by George Stiny; noted as academic and not yet practically useful for living structure.
- A transformation that sharpens and increases the distinction between two types of centers, creating stronger polarity.