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  2. Curve orientation - Wikipedia

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    This definition relies on the fact that every simple closed curve admits a well-defined interior, which follows from the Jordan curve theorem. The inner loop of a beltway road in a country where people drive on the right side of the road is an example of a negatively oriented ( clockwise ) curve.

  3. Orientation (vector space) - Wikipedia

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    The orientation of a real vector space or simply orientation of a vector space is the arbitrary choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented. In the three-dimensional Euclidean space , right-handed bases are typically declared to be positively oriented, but the choice is arbitrary, as they may also ...

  4. Orientability - Wikipedia

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    A torus is an orientable surface The Möbius strip is a non-orientable surface. Note how the disk flips with every loop. The Roman surface is non-orientable.. In mathematics, orientability is a property of some topological spaces such as real vector spaces, Euclidean spaces, surfaces, and more generally manifolds that allows a consistent definition of "clockwise" and "anticlockwise". [1]

  5. Elements of art - Wikipedia

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    Positive space refers to the areas of the work with a subject, while negative space is the space without a subject. [6] Open and closed space coincides with three-dimensional art, like sculptures, where open spaces are empty, and closed spaces contain physical sculptural elements.

  6. Line of beauty - Wikipedia

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    Serpentine lines from Hogarth's The Analysis of Beauty. Line of beauty is a term and a theory in art or aesthetics used to describe an S-shaped curved line (a serpentine line) appearing within an object, as the boundary line of an object, or as a virtual boundary line formed by the composition of several objects.

  7. Differential form - Wikipedia

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    An example of a 1-dimensional manifold is an interval [a, b], and intervals can be given an orientation: they are positively oriented if a < b, and negatively oriented otherwise. If a < b then the integral of the differential 1 -form f ( x ) dx over the interval [ a , b ] (with its natural positive orientation) is

  8. Curve - Wikipedia

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    The definition of a curve includes figures that can hardly be called curves in common usage. For example, the image of a curve can cover a square in the plane (space-filling curve), and a simple curve may have a positive area. [10] Fractal curves can have properties that are strange for the common sense.

  9. Darboux frame - Wikipedia

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    A trihedron is said to be adapted to a surface if P always lies on the surface and e 3 is the oriented unit normal to the surface at P. In the case of the Darboux frame along an embedded curve, the quadruple (P(s) = γ(s), e 1 (s) = T(s), e 2 (s) = t(s), e 3 (s) = u(s)) defines a tetrahedron adapted to the surface into which the curve is embedded.