What is this Golden Ratio?  Is it anything like the rainbow with a pot of
gold at the end?  Ruth





At 11:26 AM -0800 1/30/05, Cuyler Page wrote:

I once saw a lecture about the Golden Ratio in which famous works of art
were analysized to see if they contained Golden Ratio proportions.   The
point of the lecture was that we humans are hard-wired to appreciate Golden
Ratio proportions, whether created consciously or not.   A famous Jackson
Pollack painting, made by dripping paint from the top of a ladder, had
recently been sold at auction (the painting) for the most money of any of
his works, and featured a big black spot on a yellow background with the
spot centred procisely at a Golden Ratio division point.

Some said he was a weasel, but not all.


cp in bc

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