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[From: Wong, Wucius. Principals of Two-Dimensional Design. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1972.]

Radiation - Unit Forms
in Radiation
We have spoken of unit forms in repetition, similarity, and gradation, and in each of these disciplines all the visual and relational elements can be considered. Radiation is a kind of discipline which involves structure only. If we have to speak of unit forms in radiation, it will be the concentric movement discussed under the heading of "Patterns of Gradation" in the chapter on gradation. Concentric movement creates a feeling of radiation, but basically it is a gradational use of unit forms. In planar rotation, the unit forms can be rotated in such a way that they all point to the physical center of the design. In planar progression, they can gradually move towards or away from the center from one concentric ring to the next.

Unit forms can be designed as miniature radiation patterns which are arranged repetitively or gradationally in a repetition structure. The effect is still very much like radiation.

[Wong, Wucius. Principals of Two-Dimensional Design. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1972.]








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