Ornament evolution from evenly spaced dots through six steps using alternating repetition, strong centers, good shape, levels of scale, boundaries, contrast, and local symmetries.

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• Six-step ornament evolution from Hiro Nakano: dots to circles to sectors to bandsfinding0.843
• Ornament arises naturally from the continued unfolding of the wholeclaim0.796
  The central thesis: embellishment is spontaneous, coming from the latent centers in the uncompleted thing requiring still more structure.
• Ornament arises, naturally, when a person is making something and seeks to embellish this 'something' while making it.quote0.783
  Opening sentence of the chapter, encapsulating the natural origin of ornament.
• The beautiful balance of endless repetition and endless variation, typical in almost all of nature, and typical of the greatest of the ancient artefacts, may be coming within our grasp once again.quote0.780
  Expresses the aspiration of the new production method to recover a natural quality of order.
• Ornament and function arise from a single evolving morphology; in a living building they are one.claim0.779
  The alternative to the mechanistic split, crucial for a vital architecture.
• If the evolution of the natural world follows a step-by-step process in which each step is structure-preserving, then the fifteen properties will appear more and more often, and the degree of life in the wholeness will increase steadily.hypothesis0.771
  Conditional statement linking smooth unfolding to the progressive emergence of the fifteen properties and increased life.
• In a living process, the generation of ornament goes hand in hand with constructionclaim0.768
  Ornament is the detail that forms as the process constantly refines the centers that are there during making.
• The very same principles (positive space, alternating repetition, powerful centers) apply at every scale, from ornament to land and building structure.claim0.764
  Universality of the geometric principles across scales.