Borders Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute（边界,伦斯勒理工学院）.pdf

Borders Eye-catching linear designs framing doorways or adorning buildings enrich architecture. Symmetrical swirls or the tease of near symmetry make borders a favorite device to entice our attention in magazines, newspapers and consumer packaging. Border motifs can evoke social or psychic overtones through their ethnic or personal associations. Attractive designs might occur spontaneously when our idle doodles are repeated as in a border. Decorative borders are everywhere, an expression of the pleasure we find when surrounded by the beauty of symmetry. We will use the term border pattern for a design which can naturally be continued indefinitely in both directions along a line. By their nature border patterns exhibit translational symmetry. Border patterns are also sometimes called frieze patterns. Different cultural traditions are suggested by these examples. Mexican Arabic Native American African Celtic Chinese 16 Possibilities for border patterns are endless. Surprisingly, based on symmetry, any border naturally falls into one of seven possible types. Before going into the classification scheme, a variety of borders are given below. First illustrations of each of the seven types are given followed by selections of representative African and Native American borders. Seven Border Types mm 1m mg 1g 12 m1 11 17