Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers . Fig. 26. selves the germ of the most symmetrical combinations, is that ofwhich Figs. 4 and 5 (page 136) are types ; they exhibit secondaryspiculae diverging from the principal radii at an angle of 60°. 142 ART-STUDIES FROM NATURE. Around the simple it frequently happens that a secondary andsmaller star is arranged, as in Fig. 6 (page 136), the radii of whichare intermediate between those of the former. An angle of 300 is,however, of unfrequent occurrence, and it seems probable that in. Fig
Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers . Fig. 26. selves the germ of the most symmetrical combinations, is that ofwhich Figs. 4 and 5 (page 136) are types ; they exhibit secondaryspiculae diverging from the principal radii at an angle of 60°. 142 ART-STUDIES FROM NATURE. Around the simple it frequently happens that a secondary andsmaller star is arranged, as in Fig. 6 (page 136), the radii of whichare intermediate between those of the former. An angle of 300 is,however, of unfrequent occurrence, and it seems probable that in. Fig. 27. this and similar cases it is the union of two crystals of distincthexagonal formation. Sometimes it happens that the secondary spiculae, which wesee in Figs. 4 and 5, are continued down the main radii until theyform a contact with each other, as in Fig. 7 (page 137). The starthus enclosed about the centre generally becomes laminated and of CRVSTALS OF SNOW. 43 great transparency. In other varieties, as in Fig. 8 (page 137), itis intersected by the rays of the secondary or intermediate traced the elementary principles of these figures to thefirst formation of a simple nucleus, we will proceed to the con-sideration of the more compound varieties, in which the nucleus isa conspicuous element of construction.
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