Swallowtail merlons... or provenance
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In any case he must have been aware of the very existence of v-shapes in nature. If you have never seen v-shaped castle walls, you will not draw them, to begin with, - even by way of abstraction.

I once consulted the famous atlas of the cities of the world - the first of the kind. I forgot who was his author, but sure you understand what I mean. It is later that the VMS and, by the way, not very useful, because some pictures of the cities are quite imaginary, and some cities have the same images for themselves.

What matters (and what interested me), v-shapes were very rare in there.
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Swallowtail merlons... or provenance - by david - 09-01-2016, 10:00 AM
RE: Swallowtail merlons... or provenance - by Anton - 10-01-2016, 06:06 PM

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