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A definition of symmetry found in the dictionary is “beauty of form arising from balanced proportions.” That is a nice definition, we think, in that it points out the beauty in symmetry; but it doesn’t tell the whole story.
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Rossing, T.D., Chiaverina, C.J. (1999). Symmetry in Art and Nature. In: Light Science. Undergraduate Texts in Contemporary Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21698-0_13
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