A wood-species domino as a technical means for scientific instruction and artistic design. For this purpose, double chips are formed by bonding together transverse slices of wood of irregular six-sided form and each consisting of two different species of wood, these chips being laid together (domino-style) with the wood species matching. This is done on a frame board which is provided with an adhesive layer so that the pattern formed during the domino game is fixed in its position, as the scientific results of learning, and can simultaneously be used as an artistic relief illustration in the manner of a wall picture. What is new about this means of instruction and design is that the result of a parlour game represents a work of art designed jointly by the participants in the game and that this work of art is not merely observed passively but can be actively modifed or even completely redesigned with the same elements. Another novelty is that the scientific/dendrological instructive and learning content of wood as a material can, by comparative observation instructions for the various structures, become an expert collector's item of universal validity and variety for a wide public. The wood-species domino is thus conducive to an artistic game with aesthetic/natural elements and to the learning of dendrological features of the wood of trees and shrubs - it is thus environmental of the earth's vegetation and of the immediate neighbourhood. The wood-species domino is also conducive to ... Original abstract incomplete.
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