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02 Feb 2009, 3:28 pm
Look at golden ratios, really attractive people fit these ratios, it is hardwired. I made a thread about it ages ago.
The ratio appears in nature everywhere.
You may want to re-examine this. It is a popular myth.
Firstly, Leonardo da Vinci is usually cited as using the golden ratio all the time, when he in fact rarely did. Most of his ratios are only loosely at that value.
What you can do with "really attractive people" is to pick out aspects of them that approximate to ϕ. However, you can pick almost any value you like (say 1.4142 or 355/113) and show how all "really attractive people" have some different pairs of things, that happen to be using that ratio.
As for the golden ratio appearing everywhere in nature - it doesn't. There are some places it appears, to some extent, but only in an approximate way.
It's a nice number, but the golden mean itself is a purely mathematical value, which is fascinating, but actually (as with all such numbers) never exactly appears in nature.
The approximation means that nature is tending to that ratio.
http://goldennumber.net/beauty.htm
02 Feb 2009, 4:07 pm
Not really. "tending to" isn't happening. What you get in nature is often the first few numbers of the Fibonacci sequence, but after a bit, other effects cause that to terminate, or it hits limits where it deviates, and thereafter approximates to a different value.
I'd say that "nature" doesn't really have phi in it at all. OTOH, an "ideal world" might be full of it.
Interesting graphic - in common with what I suggested about human proportions, draw a lot of lines, throw in some extra lines "while no one is looking", stick a couple of eyes on the picture (which could have suggested a face, more dramatically, without all the prior scribble) and then replace the whole shebang with a face, where not a single one of the "construction" lines remains.
I'm sure GoldenNumber.Net is fun.
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Here is Jonny Deep fitting the mask.
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oh, honey!
you would have been LONG gone had I been even mildly authoritarian !
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Not me! I might be nice
kind of girl but I am not that f*****g patient!
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