"Lobby Dosser" wrote in message
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You do get a better view of the form when you cut a piece in half. If you
look at the 'whole', you are distracted by finish and grain. When you look
at the cut edge of a piece you are seeing unadorned Form and can learn a
lot from it.

You're seeing two dimensions of what was a three-dimensional piece. Not
sure if you should even call it the same thing.