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| Keywords: Trefoil-Architectural.svg An architectural trefoil -- the double outline of the area of three overlapping circles This appears in Gothic architecture and is a minor Christian Trinitarian symbol Can also appear with one lobe on top the vertical reflection of what is shown In the version of the trefoil shown the circles are pulled as far apart as they can be without creating a gap in the center i e the radius of the three innermost circular white areas is the distance of the separation between the centers of each pair of circles divided by the square root of three This is more or less the canonical form of the trefoil See also Image Trefoil-Architectural-Equilateral-Triangle-outlined png Image Trefoil-Architectural-Equilateral-Triangle-interlaced png and Image Quatrefoil-Architectural png For a sketch of a trefoil actually used in architecture see Image Rose cathedrale Sees png This is an SVG version of Image Trefoil-Architectural png Converted from the following PostScript code <pre> 300 396 translate 75 dup scale 18 22 setlinewidth /a -157 78983 91 1 b c 157 78983 91 1 b c 0 -182 2 b c def /b d 0 360 arc def/s setgray def /c 0 s stroke def/d 206 49333 def a/c 1 s fill def a /c 0 s stroke def/d 182 2 def a/c 1 s fill def a showpage EOF</pre> Trefoils in architecture v fl | ||||
