Example

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Where to Use

This form strongly supports scaling across a design, evoking a sense of growth in a structure, often found in repeating patterns at different scales.

Abstraction

Consider using the self-similar repeating pattern of a fractal in the composition:

Note that most natural objects have only quasi- or statistically self-similarity, as opposed to the exact self-similarity shown above.

Related Forms

This form may support Rabatment and Rule of Thirds.