So here we have one of Da Vinci's drawings, this one often used to exemplify the Golden Ratio (GR), that notion that if the proportion of 1,6 is utilised then at any scale the outcome of a comparative would be proportionate.
The interesting thing is just how often the GR appears in nature, or should I say naturally, its quite amazing, from shells to flowers to the physiology of the human species, all just about perfectly in proportion...my question is, if this perception of balance, of space, of proportion is so definitive, how did it come about? I mean the number 1,6 is hardly a memorable number, and if one goes into the specifics of the GR the number itself becomes even less impressive, for surely as a number it has little redeeming features, but what it represents well now, that's about as special as it gets I just wonder how it got to be 1.6, and if it was a bit more or a bit less would all the things still replicate its altered proportions with the same conviction, would we know any better, would someone actually say " well the Gr is 1.45 but if it was 1,6 it would've been perfect, or would 1,45 be perfect for that standard of comparison?
The interesting thing is just how often the GR appears in nature, or should I say naturally, its quite amazing, from shells to flowers to the physiology of the human species, all just about perfectly in proportion...my question is, if this perception of balance, of space, of proportion is so definitive, how did it come about? I mean the number 1,6 is hardly a memorable number, and if one goes into the specifics of the GR the number itself becomes even less impressive, for surely as a number it has little redeeming features, but what it represents well now, that's about as special as it gets I just wonder how it got to be 1.6, and if it was a bit more or a bit less would all the things still replicate its altered proportions with the same conviction, would we know any better, would someone actually say " well the Gr is 1.45 but if it was 1,6 it would've been perfect, or would 1,45 be perfect for that standard of comparison?
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