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Old 10th August 2007, 12:57 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Re: Hal and the Phi (the golden ratio)

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Originally Posted by Addy View Post
It's amazing how you can use the Golden Ratio even in art. Since the Rennaissance, it's been used to rough in the best place for the focal point in a painting. I don't know exactly how to apply it that way (or any other, I suck at math), but I've seen plenty of painters advocating its use.
That is interesting, I didn't know that the golden ratio was used in the focal point of art. But I knew that the golden compass was invented to use the golden ratio in art during the rennaissance. They believed that such a ratio expressed divinity because of its special properties, and therefore should be celbrated in painting.
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