Pine board floor with beeswax filling is quick, easy, and charming

In the Sweet Potatoes factory, accepting minor inaccuracies and filling with beeswax enabled a range of charming ornamental floor designs without high expense.

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Ornament arises naturally from the continued unfolding of the whole
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The central thesis: embellishment is spontaneous, coming from the latent centers in the uncompleted thing requiring still more structure.

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Pine board floor with beeswax fillingmethod0.927
Cutting and fitting pine boards with a chop saw, accepting minor cracks filled with beeswax to create quick and charming ornamental floors.
Marble-Dust Floors with Styrofoam Formingmethod0.695
New flooring technique using styrofoam forming to achieve wide variety of form, color, and pattern in marble-dust finish.
Alternation of squares and rectangles was superior to simple checkerboard for Martinez floorfinding0.691
In pattern trials, alternating square and rectangular elements felt more harmonious than a plain checkerboard.
The feeling of such a floor cannot be accurately judged from a drawing made in advance.claim0.679
Justification for physical mockups and on-site design adaptation.
A floor designed in an office and executed by worker-ants according to blueprint is a disaster; it cannot create life or harmony.claim0.677
Critique of top-down mass-production design that lacks on-site adaptation.
brain fills in blind spot via controlled hallucination (inpainting)concept0.676
Example of confabulation at low level: optic nerve gap is perceptually filled.
How is this to happen? What kinds of center-creating steps can have such an impact that is both piecemeal and yet also helping to repair and enhance the whole at each step forward?question0.668
Central driving question of the chapter, motivating the exposition of the fundamental process.
A small center, like a chamfered corner or a crown molding color, can help the life of a much larger center.claim0.663