Re: People's acquired taste for the Golden Rectangle

lrudolph@xxxxxxxxx (Lee Rudolph) wrote:
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"?

Sorry! You're absolutely right. I should have simply said that it's not
true, period.

Demonstrably (as far as such things can be demonstrated):

Mathematical proofs are surer. I plead that my "probably" was due to the
relative uncertainty of experiments compared to mathematical proof.

Cheers,
David

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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