Re: explain please the phi ratio

From: Mensanator (mensanator_at_aol.compost)
Date: 09/21/04 

Date: 21 Sep 2004 02:08:51 GMT

>Subject: Re: explain please the phi ratio
>From: ol3@webtv.net (Oscar Lanzi III)
>Date: 9/20/2004 8:28 PM Central Standard Time
>Message-id: <22486-414F83AA-369@storefull-3251.bay.webtv.net>
>
>You'd be surprised at ow often phi crops up in art. That's because it's
>seen ans an ashetically pleasing ratio. Following is an utterly prosaic
>example.
>
>At my job when we used to be Inland Steel, with a diamond shaped logo.
>Then we changed to Ispat Inland when an Indian businessman bought us
>out, and the logo became an oval. I noticed that it had the same aspect
>ratio as the diamond, and then I measured it and yup, it was (nearly)
>phi.

But isn't that why it crops up so often in art? Because it's _nearly_ phi?
Although the claim is specious, it sounds cool and therefore gets
repeated ad nauseum.

I was wondering where "Ispat" came from, but why was it called Inland
when it juts out into Lake Michigan?

>
>--OL 

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