16-10-2016, 05:51 PM
Koen,
Hey, no problems spotting the two examples of grid patterns. The difficulty I am having, and I'll have to attribute it to my curmudgeonly skepticism, is why it has to be that the one is derived from a *knowledge* of the other. It seems to imply that long ago there was a skilled Egyptian artist, who first drew this pattern, and no one else in several millennia of history has been able to develop this pattern on their own. They all had to have a *knowledge* of the Egyptian original, at least through its line of illustrated descendants. Somewhere there is a point where independent development begins to challenge the single source hypothesis, particularly in cases where the pattern itself is lacking any distinctive features.
And I would contrast this with other examples you have found, such as the 'ladder with dots" or the pool border with three bars and a space. These are much more distinctive.
In the heraldic system of tincture designation through the use of hatching lines, the vertical-horizontal combination represents the color 'black'.
Hey, no problems spotting the two examples of grid patterns. The difficulty I am having, and I'll have to attribute it to my curmudgeonly skepticism, is why it has to be that the one is derived from a *knowledge* of the other. It seems to imply that long ago there was a skilled Egyptian artist, who first drew this pattern, and no one else in several millennia of history has been able to develop this pattern on their own. They all had to have a *knowledge* of the Egyptian original, at least through its line of illustrated descendants. Somewhere there is a point where independent development begins to challenge the single source hypothesis, particularly in cases where the pattern itself is lacking any distinctive features.
And I would contrast this with other examples you have found, such as the 'ladder with dots" or the pool border with three bars and a space. These are much more distinctive.
In the heraldic system of tincture designation through the use of hatching lines, the vertical-horizontal combination represents the color 'black'.