What is the Golden Ratio? Aside from a special irrational number approximately equal to 1.618, The Golden Ratio is a ratio that in order for two numbers to fit it, there has to be an exact balance. The exact balance required is when A/B is the same as (A+B)/A. If A+B is one hundred, the percentages come out to A=61.8 and B=38.2. The picture below is a good representation. The Golden Ratio is represented by the Greek letter phi. Why did you choose the Golden Ratio for your final project? I chose the Golden Ratio for many reasons. A few of which are a cool name, curiosity, the real life applications, and the fact that there is still quite a bit of interest on the topic even though it came to be a very long time ago. Where in real life does the Golden Ratio apply? The Golden ratio has been used for many things, the design of books was based on the Golden Ration for a very long time. The pages were golden rectangles. In an era around 1500s-1700s, almost all books were made with a page length ratio of 2:3, 1:Square root of 3. Salvador Dali also used a Golden Rectangle for the canvas of his famous "The Sacrament of the Last Summer" A brief history of the Golden Ratio?
The Golden Ratio was originally defined in around 300 B.C. by Euclid. It was noted that famous pieces of art and architecture such as the Parthenon followed this ratio. Around 1200, Fibonacci came up with his sequence, which is related asymptotically to the Golden Ratio. Zoom forward to the 20th century, and it is given the Greek symbol Phi to represent it. Many twentieth century architects then planned their buildings according to this ratio. It has also been observed to occur naturally. Adolf Zeising observed it as a Ratio "in which is contained the ground-principle of all formative striving for beauty and completeness in the realms of both nature and art, and which permeates, as a paramount spiritual ideal, all structures, forms and proportions, whether cosmic or individual, organic or inorganic, acoustic or optical; which finds its fullest realization, however, in the human form." This means it applies to a lot of things.
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