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The above question can be equally rephrased as follows: Is the goodness of architecture a matter of fact, or of opinion? Is the goodness of an artifact a matter of fact, or of opinion? Give me of...
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What is space? Is it what is conceived by Newton or by Leibniz? Both Newtonian and Leibnizian views of space are framed under the mechanistic thinking of Descartes back to the 17th century....
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Given the two following patterns: the left or the right, which one is more beautiful than another?
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I am proof reading the following paper, in which I used an image showing the evolution of Amsterdam from the 16th to 18th century (see below). Jiang B. (2015), Wholeness as a hierarchical graph to...
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For a same digital elevation model (DEM), I applied different classifications. In the following figure, to the left is the outcome of natural breaks (Jenks 1967), while to the right is that of...
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Presented below are two patterns created from the data set: 1024 cities that follow precisely Zipf’s law, which implies that the first largest city is size 1, the second largest city is size 1/2,...
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So far definitions of fractals are mainly from mathematical point of view for the purpose of generating fractal sets or patterns, either strictly or statistically; see illustrations below (Figure...
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According to Christopher Alexander, beauty arises out of the wholeness, which is defined mathematically as a recursive structure, and exists in space and matter physically, and reflects in minds...
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