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Yin Yang....?

Several years ago I attempted to do a demo at our club on basket illusions. It went OK but it's hard to demonstrate something that takes 20-50 hours in a 2 hour demo. I had several small pieces in various stages of the process and just tried to show a bit of each stage. While cleaning out some clutter recently I came across this piece that was one of those stages, just beaded with some pencil drawings on it to show how I draw the pattern. But I liked the wood, a piece of spalted poplar so I decided to finish it. As I was working on it I saw this Yin-Yang type design and stopped there. 8"
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Looking a little closer at this, are the radial lines put in slightly curved to give the illusion of roundness, or are they straight and that just comes from the perspective? EDIT: I just zoomed in a bit more and I guess the answer is that they ARE round because it is beaded to begin with!
 
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Paul Paukstelis said:
Looking a little closer at this, are the radial lines put in slightly curved to give the illusion of roundness, or are they straight and that just comes from the perspective? EDIT: I just zoomed in a bit more and I guess the answer is that they ARE round because it is beaded to begin with!
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I'm not sure what you mean by "radial lines" but the beads are concentric circles and the lines radiating from the center are straight. The curve in the design comes from the diminishing size of the beads as it moves from the edge to the center. I hope that makes sense.
 
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HI Curt! Interesting how you saw the pattern in the unfinished stage -- fits the old wisdom that sometimes "less is more"!! The design really works on this piece of spalted wood - almost like you had planned it - (yeah, yeah - I meant to do that!!) ---- good job! :)
 

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