Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each form to the technique its geometry calls for.
- Pinching
- Coiling
- Slabbing
- Throwing
- A small bowl held in one hand
- A metre-tall asymmetric vessel
- A set of identical round cups
- A cube with crisp edges
Hints
- Ask what geometry each technique can and cannot produce.
- Only one technique produces rotationally symmetric forms quickly.
Show the answer
- Pinching → A small bowl held in one hand
- Coiling → A metre-tall asymmetric vessel
- Slabbing → A cube with crisp edges
- Throwing → A set of identical round cups
Why
The sorting is by what the geometry requires, not by preference. A wheel cannot make an asymmetric form at all, and a coil can make anything given time, so the technique follows from the form, and choosing the technique first quietly decides what you are allowed to design.
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