Re: People's acquired taste for the Golden Rectangle

David W. Cantrell <DWCantrell@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

"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.

"Probably"? Demonstrably (as far as such things can be demonstrated):
experiments have been run in which people are presented with rectangles
of various aspects, and asked to rate their "appeal"; the "golden
rectangle" doesn't win, even allowing for lots of slop.

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.

Alas, humans demonstrably *have* "acquired the taste to enjoy"
bullshitting.

Lee Rudolph
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