Anonymous Coward User ID: 29092727 Canada 03/17/2016 07:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Finnegans wake and fractalized phi It has long been thought that the so-called “Golden Ratio” described in Euclid’s Elements has “implications for numerous natural phenomena… from the leaf and seed arrangements of plants” and “from the arts to the stock market.” So writes astrophysicist Mario Livio, head of the science division for the institute that oversees the Hubble Telescope. And yet, though this mathematical proportion has been found in paintings by Leonardo da Vinci to Salvador Dali—two examples that are only “the tip of the iceberg in terms of the appearances of the Golden Ratio in the arts”—Livio concludes that it does not describe “some sort of universal standard for ‘beauty.’” Most art of “lasting value,” he argues, departs “from any formal canon for aesthetics.” We can consider Livio a Golden Ratio skeptic. Far on the other end of a spectrum of belief in mathematical art lies Le Corbusier, Swiss architect and painter in whose modernist design some see an almost totalitarian mania for order. Using the Golden Ratio, Corbusier designed a system of aesthetic proportions called Modulor, its ambition, writes William Wiles at Icon, “to reconcile maths, the human form, architecture and beauty into a single system.” Praised by Einstein and adopted by a few of Corbusier’s contemporaries, Modulor failed to catch on in part because “Corbusier wanted to patent the system and earn royalties from buildings using it.” In place of Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man, Corbusier proposed “Modulor Man” (below) the “mascot of [his] system for reordering the universe.” [ link to www.openculture.com] |
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User ID: 70628878 Mexico 03/19/2016 10:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Finnegans wake and fractalized phi Here in Moicane we flop on the seamy side, but up n'ent, prospector, you sprout all your worth and you woof your wings, so if you want to be Phoenixed, come and be parked.Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes. - The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint Exupéry
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 75798575 Canada 11/17/2017 04:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Finnegans wake and fractalized phi Gravity and proportion in the dance of balance.
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