In Italy, the Pantheon, however has the golden ratio. Its pillars below the roof is a rectangle, the golden rectangle, on the roof (top part) is a triangle, the golden triangle.
It is pleasing to the human eye.
The Parthenon in Greece uses the golden ratio as well as the Pyramids of Giza
A great many things have the golden ratio in them varying from things fabricated by humans such as architecture, the proportions of the sides of a book also fall into the golden ratio. The golden ratio also occurs naturally for example the spiral in the snail's shell falls into the golden ratio. Generally most man made things have the golden ratio in them as it has been found quite simply, to look good.
The Fibonacci sequence can be used to determine the golden ratio. If you divide a term in the sequence by its predecessor, at suitably high values, it approaches the golden ratio.
Fibonacci didn't discover the golden ratio. It had been used thousands of years earlier,for example in construction of religious architecture by the Greeks, who considered it themost perfect and visually pleasing ratio of structural length to width. Fibonacci studied asimple numerical series that generates the number equal to the golden ratio.The number is also the solution to the equation: [ (x - 1) = 1/x ].
It is pleasing to the human eye.
Golden Ratio
The Parthenon in Greece uses the golden ratio as well as the Pyramids of Giza
art, architecture, and music
The common belief is that the Greeks used the golden ratio (~1.618) for the relation between a building's length and its height. Mario Livio, who wrote a book on the golden ratio, claims that these ratios are actually somewhere between 1.4 and 2.0, so that may have been a myth.
It has been found to be aesthetically pleasing - in art, architecture etc
A great many things have the golden ratio in them varying from things fabricated by humans such as architecture, the proportions of the sides of a book also fall into the golden ratio. The golden ratio also occurs naturally for example the spiral in the snail's shell falls into the golden ratio. Generally most man made things have the golden ratio in them as it has been found quite simply, to look good.
It is used in nature all the time. Buds on plant stalks sprout using the Golden Ratio. When architects use the Golden ratio to design a building , the building looks good, and feels good. The Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece is such a building. Good artist s often unconciously use the Golden Ratio ; the focus of a painting is never in the centre of the canvas, but at the golden ratio. The ratio is 1: 1.618.... or (phi) = (1 + sqrt(5)) / 2 it is an Irrational number. It also goes by the names , Golden Number, Devine Section, God's Number, etc., Have a look in Wikioedia under 'Golden Ratio'.
It is not. The Golden Ratio was known and used thousands of years before baseball was invented.
I use the Golden Ratio in my daily life to design websites.
The Fibonacci sequence can be used to determine the golden ratio. If you divide a term in the sequence by its predecessor, at suitably high values, it approaches the golden ratio.
Fibonacci didn't discover the golden ratio. It had been used thousands of years earlier,for example in construction of religious architecture by the Greeks, who considered it themost perfect and visually pleasing ratio of structural length to width. Fibonacci studied asimple numerical series that generates the number equal to the golden ratio.The number is also the solution to the equation: [ (x - 1) = 1/x ].