Attenuation and repetition The distortion here is produced by the movement of a car, on a road near La Ina in Andalusia. My eye is always drawn to attenuation and repetition and the stratified view here exhibits both characteristics to such a degree that the image appears stretched. The extended parallels of the power lines are layered above the repeating arches of the viaduct and the low mass of the roadside barrier. John Pawson, A Visual Inventory repetitiondistortion
Large combinatorial spaces For the theory of design is that general theory of search through large combinatorial spaces. Herbert Simon, The Sciences of the Artificial The rational model of design