ABSTRACT

To continue the analogy with the natural sciences, people want to see whether they can discover lawlike properties of the prismatic field. This chapter considers two laws: the "rule of the fundamental hexagon" and the "pattern of reflected nodes". Both these "laws" provide methods for reproducing an image throughout the entire prismatic plane. The chapter discusses the major point of the prism exercises. The "one out, one away" or "parallelogram" rule can be used to go from one cluster to another: starting at the center of a cluster of dots, people follow any line leading away from that cluster until they reach a second base point or reflected base point of the prism. In order to discover another rule of the prismatic plane, people return to their work with the single dot and look at the pattern that they developed. This pattern was used to illustrate the "one out, one away" rule.