A theory of pure design

by Denman Waldo Ross

Fig. 200

The addition of details, increasing in number from measure to measure upward, increases the movement of the rhythm in that direction.

Fig. 201

Taking the arrangement of [Fig. 199] and repeating it six times at diverging angles of sixty degrees, we get what may be called a radial balance upon the basis of a hexagon.

Outlines may be drawn one inside of the other or several inside of one.

Fig. 202

This is a case of outlines-within-outlines and of Shape-Harmony without Measure-Harmony. There is, also, a Harmony of Attitudes, but no Harmony of Intervals.

Interesting results may be produced by drawing a series of outlines similar in shape, the second inside of the first, the third inside of the second, and so on.