Serpentine refers to the curved shape of an object or design which resembles the letter s, a sine wave or a snake; the latter is the derivation of the term.
Examples
- This shape is often used while riding horses as a riding figure, to help train the animal and help improve the rider.
- Boustrophedon text is ordered in a serpentine fashion.
- The zigzag entropy coding used in JPEG images is evocative of the serpentine.
- Thomas Jefferson designed serpentine brick walls for the University of Virginia. [1] [2]
- Sigmoid function
- Line of Beauty
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