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    The vesica piscis is a type of lens, a mathematical shape formed by the intersection of two disks with the same radius, intersecting in such a way that...
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    landscaping with the obelisk in the intersection or vesica piscis. The monument's vesica piscis is not ideal because neither circle passes through the...
    146 KB (17,784 words) - 05:58, 18 July 2024
  • circles centered on triangles (with the simple, two circle form named vesica piscis) or on the square lattice pattern of points. Patterns of seven overlapping...
    26 KB (2,207 words) - 03:07, 5 July 2024
  • genitals Trigonum vesicae urinariae, Latin for trigone of urinary bladder Vesica piscis, a shape formed by the intersection of two circles of the same radius...
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    (11th/12th century[cite?]). Triquetra composed exactly of three overlapping Vesica piscis symbols. An interlaced double triquetra. Tightly-knotted form of triquetra...
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    surrounded by one). Such an aureola is often a mandorla ("almond-shaped" vesica piscis), especially around Christ in Majesty, who may well have a halo as well...
    41 KB (5,315 words) - 21:37, 13 July 2024
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    region between the two curves becomes convex and then converges to a vesica piscis shape. Curves that have self-crossings may reach singularities before...
    75 KB (9,380 words) - 17:17, 19 July 2024
  • organisations and Masonic bodies tend to use the same shape, also known as a vesica piscis). Although an escutcheon can be used as a charge on its own, the most...
    18 KB (1,897 words) - 22:24, 20 July 2024
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    1919. The two interlocking circles constitute the symbol known as the Vesica Piscis. In the well lid design, a spear or a sword bisects these two circles...
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    hexafoil is a design with six-fold dihedral symmetry composed from six vesica piscis lenses arranged radially around a central point, often shown enclosed...
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    suggests instead constructions based on a regular octagon or on the vesica piscis. Leonardo's drawing is almost always dated to around 1490 during his...
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    oval or elliptical in form, but occasionally depicted as circular, vesica piscis, or quatrefoil. When it appears merely as a luminous disk round the...
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    it is called a symmetric lens, otherwise is an asymmetric lens. The vesica piscis is one form of a symmetric lens, formed by arcs of two circles whose...
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    The Vesica piscis, as the common area between two circles of same radius r {\displaystyle r} through each other's centers. Among its uses, this shape...
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    points of intersection. In both methods a by-product is the formation of vesica piscis. The proof that the resulting figure is an equilateral triangle is the...
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  • sides (i.e., not a square). Ellipse Ellipsoidal dome Stadium (geometry) Vesica piscis – a pointed oval Symbolism of domes If the property makes sense: on...
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    delineating a fish in profile), which the woman was wearing, and the vesica piscis. Dick recounted that as the sun glinted off the gold pendant, the reflection...
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  • The number 153 is associated with the geometric shape known as the Vesica Piscis or Mandorla. Archimedes, in his Measurement of a Circle, referred to...
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    France: The emblem of the union was two interlaced rings (like the vesica piscis typical interlaced marriage rings) and originally the idea of Swiss...
    54 KB (5,967 words) - 23:31, 25 July 2024
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    ordinarily enclosed in a pointed ovular shape denominated a "vesica piscis", or simply "vesica", to distinguish them from the circular seals of secular use...
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