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I am laying out a wainscoting for my bathroom. The bathroom wall is 73" long. When I do the math I come close to the Golden Ratio with three 24" wide segments by 39" high. (The golden ratio is 1:1.618).
Or do you just divide it up according to what is convenient?
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Looks like you are good to go with GR and convenience. Doesn't have to be exact to look good.
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I have and will continue to do so. You can't explain it, it just "feels" right. I did some frame panels of molding below the chair rail in my dining room, and on one section of a wall I had to slightly (1-2") modify two of the three panels to fit around a heating return screen, and when folks visit I ask them which of the three panels on that wall do they like best in terms of sizing, and they always pick the golden ratio one. Never fails.
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Pardon my ignorance, but I've wondered how the Golden Ratio works with something say like a box. So you use it on one face and then again on the adjoining face and things start to go south. By the time you get to the third face you're pretty well locked into the dimensions and a long way from anything that could be called golden. So - do you only apply the ratio to one face, top, side and then go by guess and by golly for the rest?
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Admiral said it:
"I have and will continue to do so. You can't explain it, it just "feels" right."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJgkaU08VvY The part about the golden ratio begins about the seven minute mark.
Or, watch the whole thing, it is very educational !
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Steve N said:
Guaranteed most of the pieces built by our forefathers that we admire as valuable antiques are simply pleasing to the eye. Most of the people making those pieces couldn't spell their name, much less do mathematics.
Don't be so sure. We've had this discussion before with some pretty impressive resources dug up. The golden ratio does not require a college degree. It's actually quite simple to plot out.
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As Carolyn and I can both tell you, all approximations to the golden ratio are usually inaccurate. The exact number is found by adding 1 to the square root of 5 and then dividing the sum by two.
I'm not sure if Fibonacci even knew that.
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MarkSingleton said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJgkaU08VvY
The part about the golden ratio begins about the seven minute mark.
Or, watch the whole thing, it is very educational !
Thanks for posting that--one of my absolute favorite memories from school--so much better than most of the film strips!!
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