This project illustrates a method used by printers to lay out text on two printed pages, using a series of lines connecting the page corners. Click and move the mouse to adjust the page proportions. Press space to hide or show the line segments used to place the text. Use arrow keys to test the method against different example books. Ctrl-M reduces pixelation in the drawing.
Over the centuries, printers have developed principles of aesthetically pleasing text placement, proportions, and margins - so-called "canons of page construction." The method shown here, developed by J.A. Van de Graaf, is based on the intersections of the line segments shown in orange and red. You can read more about this and other canons of page construction here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canons_of_page_construction
