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Re: Golden Ratio

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Post by the_pwner224 »

andrewljohnson wrote: post #5

Not content-related but... I dislike the inertial scrolling on this page. Something about inertial scrolling with a mousewheel feels off. Maybe it's because mousewheels have discrete ticks that I subconsciously use, that get broken by the inertial paradigm?

It's just unexpected and unnecessary. On mobile I'm pretty sure all the browsers already have it, on desktop it completely breaks expectations for what should happen.

Also it is turned up to an extreme degree here. I'm using Firefox and the scrolljacking doesn't happen in FF, but when I open it up in another browser, a scrollwheel flick that would normally scroll down 1/4rd of the page is enough to continue down all the way to the very end. Even with smaller scrolls, it goes around 1.5-2.5x the expected distance.

Scrolling is muscle memory and the consistent behaviour of it makes us have expectations for what scrolling should do, flagrantly destroying those will cause unease.

Re: Golden Ratio

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Post by bjornjaja »

jacobolus wrote: post #17
endorphone wrote: post #4

"Golden Ratio is a natural ratio found everywhere. From flowers to shells, from our fingers to the galaxy, this mathematical ratio makes all forms look visually balanced and gratifying." Both of those claims have been broadly debunked, and the so-called golden ratio is grossly oversold.

It does show up in plants (artichokes, cactuses, sunflowers, pineapples, etc.), as the angle between successive leaves/seeds/petals. This is called spiral phyllotaxis. You can make some cool art out of this idea with a strobe light, https://www.johnedmark.com/phi/ It also shows up anywhere with pentagonal (or icosahedral) symmetry, since the golden ratio is the ratio of the diagonal to the side of a pentagon. So that…

Definitely not bullshit with respect to art—it is used in many aesthetically pleasing and well balanced designs.

Re: Golden Ratio

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Post by tenaciousDaniel »

endorphone wrote: post #4

"Golden Ratio is a natural ratio found everywhere. From flowers to shells, from our fingers to the galaxy, this mathematical ratio makes all forms look visually balanced and gratifying." Both of those claims have been broadly debunked, and the so-called golden ratio is grossly oversold.

https://imgur.com/gallery/todMGeM

Re: Golden Ratio

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Post by htk »

hnarayanan wrote: post #6

While the Golden Ratio is really popular, there are many other ratios that are aesthetically pleasing for different scenarios. I’ve tried to visualise some of them: https://github.com/hnarayanan/orthogons/blob/master/README.m...

Cool experiment, thanks for sharing the code. It would be great if someone took these different ratios to make an interactive designer of something (like a car) where choosing each ratio would update the dimensions of the thing (ex: the car size is the first value, hood size is the second, followed by the doors, wheels, headlight, etc)

Re: Golden Ratio

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Post by kingbirdy »

bjornjaja wrote: post #22
jacobolus wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does show up in plants (artichokes, cactuses, sunflowers, pineapples, etc.), as the angle between successive leaves/seeds/petals. This is called spiral phyllotaxis. You can make some cool art out of this idea with a strobe light, https://www.johnedmark.com/phi/ It also shows up anywhere with pentagonal (or icosahedral) symmetry, since the golden ratio is the ratio of the diagonal to the side of a pentagon. So that…

Definitely not bullshit with respect to art—it is used in many aesthetically pleasing and well balanced designs.

But that doesn't mean the golden ratio is the reason it's aesthetically apealling. There is good art that uses the ratio, and bad art that uses it, and good art that doesn't use it.

Re: Golden Ratio

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Post by rockwotj »

endorphone wrote: post #4

"Golden Ratio is a natural ratio found everywhere. From flowers to shells, from our fingers to the galaxy, this mathematical ratio makes all forms look visually balanced and gratifying." Both of those claims have been broadly debunked, and the so-called golden ratio is grossly oversold.

Disney would never lie to me: https://youtu.be/fwYfuJfIgaw?t=331

Re: Golden Ratio

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Post by adele11 »

dmckeon wrote: post #26

For travelers wanting a rough-and-ready conversion of miles to kilometers, the ratio is useful: 3 miles ~= 5 km; 8 km~= 5 miles; etc. Discussion at: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/2zop5o/i_realised_the...

Even easier don't think about the ratio! Think about the Fibonacci sequence: 0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 etc. Then you are doing just addition.

Re: Golden Ratio

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Post by jacobolus »

bjornjaja wrote: post #22
jacobolus wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does show up in plants (artichokes, cactuses, sunflowers, pineapples, etc.), as the angle between successive leaves/seeds/petals. This is called spiral phyllotaxis. You can make some cool art out of this idea with a strobe light, https://www.johnedmark.com/phi/ It also shows up anywhere with pentagonal (or icosahedral) symmetry, since the golden ratio is the ratio of the diagonal to the side of a pentagon. So that…

Definitely not bullshit with respect to art—it is used in many aesthetically pleasing and well balanced designs.

There are many aesthetically pleasing artworks where the subjects wear hats.

But that doesn’t mean that there’s some magical feature of hats that produces transcendent art.

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