The gothic line

A blog post on a very particular and beautiful type of line, for those of you interested. The Gothic line as thought of by art historian Wilhelm Worringer:

http://piratesandrevolutionaries.blogspot.com/2010/12/variations-on-line-wilhelm-worringers.html

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  1. As a kid, I used to love running my fingers over and over the edges of my dad's french curve; it represents the sensuous of a gothic line captured in a drawing instrument, I think:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_curve

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