The most popular number in architecture

[clintonG]

[++]

We all did Fibonacci sequences in High School, if not earlier. Without a clue, I don't click. What are you getting at here?

[clintonG]

Those days before CAD I used a compass to bisect squares to get the golden rectangle. I have no idea intuitively how you would have used .7071 other than to surmise it is .618 rounded up perhaps? Why mess around then and why .7071?

[Señor Popcorn]

Perhaps it's your own aesthetic.

[clintonG]

That's very interesting. There's a gazillion numerical "coincidences" and "tricks" that can be learned or discovered eh? BTW -- I'm a running dimensional guy myself. I'm 54 and got trained in the ways of the old school.

[gruhn]

The worst "exposition" on Golden that I've ever seen.

[++]

Why get contrained by a golden mean? Consider that God, in his wisdom might have put flower petals in a fibonacci sequence, but each one of those items in golden means is different. God is, indeed, in the details and so is his wisdom, not only in some set , gakh, formulaic way of thinking on things. Doesn't mean you should necessarily ignore decent proportions but, sometimes devolving or evolving them is fun

[Ron]

"Don" wrote in news: [e-mail]:

I recognize that number right way, except I used 2.414...

If I had a bay or turret I wanted to be 14' wide I divided 14 by 2.414 and got the long side, the balance halfed was right angle dims of the 45 deg sides !