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The Rose Window Co.

The Geometry of

Rose Window Construction

stained glass rose frame
     
 
Rose Window Geometry
  
 
Rose Window Frames are designed according to a simple
mathematical rule: each part of the design must be
geometrically related to every other part of the design.
  
     
 
The best way to understand rose window geometry is to view
a proficient mathematician go through the steps of constructing
a rose window design with just ruler and compass.
  
 

 

Sample of Rose window reconstruction from
Grace Cathedral of San Francisco
by master geometrist Michael S. Schneider

  
     
 

 

Link to Bert Janssen, master reconstructor
of crop circle geometry, which is the same process
to rediscover the rose window geometry

  
     
 
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