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[From: Wong, Wucius. Principals of Two-Dimensional Form. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1988.]

Repetition - And Reflection
Reflection is a special case of repetition. By reflection we mean that a form is mirrored, resulting in a new form which looks very much like the original form, except that one is left-handed, and the other is right-handed, and the two can never exactly coincide.

Reflection is only possible when the form is not symmetrical, because a symmetrical form turns out to be the same form in reflection.

Rotation of a form in any direction can never produce its reflected form. The reflected form has a completely different set of rotations.

All symmetrical forms can be divided into two parts: one component form and its reflection. The union of these two parts produces the symmetrical form.

[Wong, Wucius. Principals of Two-Dimensional Form. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1988.]










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