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Re: Image comments for Female body proportions (special service for #plus613 users)
Posted by: netstalker
Date: 06/05/2005 11:21AM
There are many different ways to draw a rectangle. As soon as that happens it's seducing to seek the most perfect way. But any rectangle can be described as perfect for it's own intrinsic reasons. E.g., the rectangle based on the 3-4-5 triangle could be considered perfect. Or the rectangle with one length one and the other length the square root of two could be considered, or the 6x4 rectangle (of photographs) could be considered perfect given one side is 2/3 the length of the other. Or you could have the projection of a cylinder with the length pie times the width. There are all sorts of rectangles which give a perfect fit. Those who thing the golden rectangle is "perfect" would be hard pressed to tell the difference between it and between with ratio 1.5, purely by looking at it. Even if you could measure it. You can never perfectly draw the golden rectangle. I think it was deciden on as being perfect because of it's fractal self generating quality. This seems an attraction based on the complexity of how it is generated. But is it it any more perfect than any other rectangle? How can it be? It will never be drawn perfectly. To say the golden rectangle is more beautiful than other rectangles, is like to say a circle is more beautiful than an ellipse, perhaps. I think all "perfection" suggests is that the dimensions seem to be well understood; the better the understood they are tht more perfect they become. And because the golden section is observed to appear often it seems to add to it's aesthetics somehow. Like, see, it's such a good thing everybody's using it. You could argue the pentagon is the most perfect shape because it has so many golden ratios inside it. But others find octagons more pleasing. Still again, the hexagon could be considered more perfect because because it's based on the circle and perfectly fits 6 circles of an equal diameter around it. If you're looking fot the perfect answer and know what it is before you start looking, you're sure to be convinced, perhaps. Or unless you don't understand enough about it. You could have a golden scribble if you wanted to. Who knows what mysteries of the universe lay inside it.

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