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Thursday, 6 January 2011

How to design a labyrinth

How to design a labyrinth


This is worth knowing just for its coolness but there are people who believe that walking a labyrinth will help you find solutions to your problems or new ideas, inspiration. Of course you’re not supposed to be worrying about vampiric initiations by muscle monsters, probably not the best way to encourage meditative state of mind.


Anyway labyrinths: they require logic to create and intuition to walk.


1. Start with a cross:

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2. Dot the corners of the square:


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3. Draw your first arc – from the top of the cross to the top right dot:


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4. Now, moving anti- clockwise one place from the start point, start at the top left dot and draw a curve to join it with the right arm of the cross:

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5. For each curve your start point is one step anti-clockwise from the one before and your end point is one step clockwise from the previous end point.


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6. This is a simple labyrinth so there is only one more ring to go: