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- While proportion pertains to an
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- ordered set of relationships
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- among the dimensions of a form
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- or space, scale refers to how we
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- perceive or judge the size of
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- something in relation to
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- something else. In dealing with
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- the issue of scale, therefore, we
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- are always comparing one thing
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- to another.
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- Of particular interest to
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- designers is visual scale, which
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- refers not to the actual
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- dimensions of things, but rather
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- to how small or large something
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- appears to be in relation to its
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- normal size or to the size of
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- other things in its context.