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REGULATING LINES
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of this race and of this epoch, and in accordance with the static data of the constructive principles applied to it, the regulating line comes in to rectify, correct, give point to and pull together all the parts on the same unifying principle, that of the triangle 3, 4, 5, which develops its effects from the portico right up to the summit of the vault.

REGULATING LINES APPLIED TO NOTRE DAME, PARIS:

NOTRE DANE, PARIS

The determinant surface of the Cathedral is based on the square and the circle.