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The Golden Ratio. Is it bunk? Or is there something to it? Or Does it matter?. Google hits in Millions. Google Hits in Millions GWB=George W. Bush and LdV=Leonardo da Vinci. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The Golden Ratio• Is it bunk?
• Or
• is there something to it?
• Or
• Does it matter?
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Google Hits in Millions GWB=George W. Bush and
LdV=Leonardo da Vinci
Form a square with sides of a length one. Bisect the Square as shown. Bisect the rectangle as shown, scribe an arc as shown and the ratio will be Phi
Perhaps there is good
reason why these are sized
at the golden ratio.
Mask Makers distort this ratio for evil and ugly masks.
God commanded Noah to build an arc that was
close to the Golden Ratio or is this just looking for things that
are not there?
The Arc of the Covenant was
commanded by God to be built at a ratio close to the Golden Ratio. Or is this just looking for
things that are not there?
Psychology Studies
• Babies crawl toward photos of “Beautiful” faces and away from “Ugly” ones.
• Beautiful ones adhere to the Golden Ratio and ugly ones do not.
The Pi Lullaby • By giving each number a tone as
in Do, Ra, Mi, Fa, So La, Te, Do, and then giving a zero a rest, Roy Wooten was able to use Pi to write a Lullaby.
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•1 : 1.618•1 / 0.618 = 1.618
Are we looking for and subsequently finding the Golden Ratio when it is not really there?
Are we just trying to put our Frame of reference on things like Time and
Length?
Make your own Golden Ratio Calipers from Cardstock and Thumbtacks
Make your own Golden Ratio Calipers from Cardstock and Thumbtacks
15/32 approximates 0.472 close enough