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Feel free to participate in Elven Jedi's Skintober Event! Make a skin each day following the themes,

Panda's, bamboo, crossbows, Pillagers?!! Read more about it and let's discuss here!

It's nearly October and the polls for the next project and skin contests are now open! And don't be disheartened, there's still an extra spooky something coming your way next month as well.

Get your votes in... or else. Muhahahaha.

THEORY OF PROPORTION - part 2: The Five Orders [Columns]

Continuing the topic started yesterday (https://www.planetminecraft.com/member/archiga/wall/post/90172/) in this post I will introduce in a general way the proportions of the classical and classicist orders.
The four basic orders are: the Doric, the Ionic and the Corinthian (from Greece); the Tuscan (from Italy). The fifth order, the Composite (of Roman invention) was added for the first time during the Renaissance in the teatrises of architecture based on Vitruvius' De Architectura.

It is good to differentiate the rules of proportion according to the Classical Codex and the Classicist Rule.

CLASSICAL CODEX: greater flexibility in the proportions, the orders respond to a language that attributes to each of them different features.
- Tuscan: bald and solid
- Doric: severe and robust (symbolize the male body)
- Ionic: elegant (symbolize the female body)
- Corinthian: refined and pure
- Composite: sumptuous and regal

CLASSICIST RULE: each order responds to standard and not flexible proportions.
These ratios were theorized during the Renaissance from teatrises written by architects, the most influent was "Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura (Canon of the five orders of architecture)" by the Italian architect Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, to which the successive architects refer.

Here is a table with the proportions between the diameter of the column (considered 1 unit) and the height of the column for each order (capital and base included)




It is clear that, assuming all orders of the same height, the diameter decreases from the Tuscan to the Corinthian-Composite.
1) Tuscan, 2) Doric, 3) Ionic, 4) Corinthian, 5) Composite

- Proportions of the Tuscan Order - T.O.P topic part 3.1: www.planetminecraft.com/member/archiga/wall/post/90588/
- Proportions of the Doric Order - T.O.P topic part 3.2: www.planetminecraft.com/member/archiga/wall/post/90825/
- Proportions of the Ionic Order - T.O.P topic part 3.3: www.planetminecraft.com/member/archiga/wall/post/91017/
- Proportions of the Corinthian Order and Composite Order - T.O.P topic part 3.4: www.planetminecraft.com/member/archiga/wall/post/91205/

my system error contest is halfway through its runtime and the tropical fish contest is nearly done! to anybody who likes fun unique idea contests like the tropical fish contest, the system error contest is a very fun one to do, The idea is to make a skin using inverted colors, and with a technology theme. Right now there's only 1 participant and it's a shame because I know tons of people love the idea.