Re: People's acquired taste for the Golden Rectangle

"Brablo" <gestureofrespect@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
it's my opinion that people find the golden rectangle (one whose ratios
are 1:1.616...) as very appealing.

It's your opinion and it's certainly a well known "factoid". But it's
probably not true. It's numerology, rather than mathematics or aesthetics.

do you think that humans have acquired the taste to enjoy viewing the
GR or do you think that there is a math reasoning behind this (i.e. our
viewing angle is around 1:1.62?)?

Neither.

David W. Cantrell
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