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A really fancy figure ( looks like ' fine art ' ) has lots of order . A really scrappy
figure ( is it art at all ? ) has vanishingly little . The common ' sense of order : 4
unites all these figures as art . The different kinds of order corres - pond to
whether the ...
A really fancy figure ( looks like ' fine art ' ) has lots of order . A really scrappy
figure ( is it art at all ? ) has vanishingly little . The common ' sense of order : 4
unites all these figures as art . The different kinds of order corres - pond to
whether the ...
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Complex figures , like 10 , will need rather a lot of statements to specify them . ...
We now have a measure of the complexity of a figure in terms of the number of
statements , that is the amount of information , that is required to specify the
shape ...
Complex figures , like 10 , will need rather a lot of statements to specify them . ...
We now have a measure of the complexity of a figure in terms of the number of
statements , that is the amount of information , that is required to specify the
shape ...
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I have applied this approach particularly to the horns of the cornu figures ( e.g.
Figure 1E ) . A simulation method with a random element demonstrates that a
number of horn - shapes with good geometric order will arise naturally within a ...
I have applied this approach particularly to the horns of the cornu figures ( e.g.
Figure 1E ) . A simulation method with a random element demonstrates that a
number of horn - shapes with good geometric order will arise naturally within a ...
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| Title | Archaeological review from Cambridge, Volume 4, Issue 2 Archaeological review from Cambridge |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 25 Jun 2007 |
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