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This article discusses how a simple and efficient design principle may be used to create a large collection of hybrid designs. Applying such principle in creating assembled arrays of designs can generate visually elusive final designs. This paper has three tasks. First, it examines the influence of the fundamental principle on the creation of new designs. Some notions and approaches of designers and architects are also reviewed. Second, this paper examines the basic properties of magic squares and employs its principles in the analysis and synthesis of designs. Third, this paper applies the principles of magic squares in creating new designs. Some examples of designs are also presented in this paper.
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Park, JH. (2018). Underlying Principles and Emerging Designs: Design Exercises Based on Magic Squares. In: Lee, JH. (eds) Computational Studies on Cultural Variation and Heredity. KAIST Research Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8189-7_3
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