From the course: Graphic Design Foundations: Layout and Composition
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The magical golden section
From the course: Graphic Design Foundations: Layout and Composition
The magical golden section
- I saw a television program that talked about a secret geometry and world order conspiracy. The secret geometry turned out to be the golden section. Of all the proportional systems and use today, the golden section, also called the golden rectangle and golden mean, are the oldest and most utilized. Every design student learns about it. It's not really a secret, but it is magical. The golden section may have been used as early as the Egyptian pyramids. The ancient Greeks, however, are credited as discovering the proportion. They admired it for its beauty and mathematical perfection. This proportion can mathematically reproduce itself as many times as one wants. All these rectangles are the same proportion. By connecting the points, a spiral emerges that can go on to infinity. The golden section is based on the Fibonacci Sequence, a simple mathematical formula that is extraordinarily common in nature. The spiral…
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