Serpentine shape

Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Serpentine (geometry).

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.

[edit] 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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