POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Anyone for Tea? : Re: Anyone for Tea? Server Time
7 Aug 2024 15:20:26 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Anyone for Tea?  
From: Bill Hails
Date: 3 May 2006 15:35:30
Message: <44590602@news.povray.org>
PM 2Ring wrote:

> Bill Hails <me### [at] billhailsnet> wrote:
>> PM 2Ring wrote:
> 
> [...]
> I'd expect that most people like we POVers who enjoy making pictures
> mathematically, know a bit about Fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio,
> but you never know.

sheepish grin :-)

> [...]
> I like the the aesthetics of the golden section, but I don't think that it
> is necessarily all that more beautiful than other ratios.

Funny you mentioned that, I've always been fascinated by that property
of the ISO A-series (whatever it's number) paper sizes. The ratio 1/sqrt(2)
means that if you cut A4 in half you get A5... but I guess most Pov-ers know
that one too :-)

-- 
Bill Hails
http://billhails.net/


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