The Golden Ratio Equals 1.61803399.. : Intro May 12, 2004
Posted by Predrag in : Web Design , trackbackHave you ever heard of the Golden ratio? If you were studying mathematics you heard of it as something like this:
Yeah, it is irrational number. Not cool at all, I know. Why on EARTH I mentioned it here?? Please read the following..
The Golden Mean or Phi and the Golden Ratio abound in nature and perhaps humanity has been genetically programmed to recognize the ratio as being pleasing.
Try to create an artwork by following the Golden Ratio rule and then create exactly the same thing, but in different ratio and ask your friends and other people which one they like best. You will be suprised.
Further in time, I will upload here some stuff and comments considering this issue.
More interesting stuff about the Golden Ratio you can find in Photography e-Book: The Golden Ratio.
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Sound very interesting, but man can u post some more work on
Golden Ratio.
:) Well, I will for sure, since you are not the first one asking. Very soon (in a week from now approx.) I’ll publish some real-life work and examples.
Mario Livio has a great book on this. For the layman and the experience mathematician alike
one awesome thing about the golden ratio is that it is transcendental, in other words it cant be calculated. thus it can be used as the seed for newton’s method, and higher order calculus algorithms, in their computer implementations, to make them run infinitely faster.
excuse me about the transcendental thing, i meant irrational, the two are quite similar when speaking of computers…
definitely sounds interesting but i really dont see why it is any different or more significant than pi or e which are special in a different way. for eg pi is the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of any circle.
and e is the ratio of the volume of any sphere to the volume of the largest cube inscribed in it.
what then is the geometrical significance of phi?
Well, pramodh, from the angle of mathematics , all these proportions are the same in value. However, golden ratio (phi) is the only one proven to work in design.
One particular research proved that people with golden proportions on their faces (some distances, can’t remember which ones), are more appealing to opposite sex.
There is no geometrical significance, it is the ratio created by an array of Fibonacci numbers.
I know that “PHI” by reading the DA VINCI CODE, any other book writing more spercific about this? I feel interested in.
There are lots of books covering PHI, but you won’t like them much if you are not a mathematician.
However, almost every serious design theory book or study has a significant part about golden ratio (phi).