Golden Ratio Dividers
In article , "Morris Dovey" wrote:
Leon wrote:
| Careful Morris, this argument will easily slip into a loop before
| you know it.
LOL - Nope, Doug is just acting like a geometer. I've attached a pair
of drawings that allow using a straightedge and compass to first
construct a pair of properly proportioned line segments in the golden
ratio and, second, to use those lengths to construct an
arbitrary-length baseline. No measuring scale/rule/ruler required.
Simple and elegant. Thanks, Morris.
Once the base line has been established, I trust Doug won't have any
difficulty constructing the legs shown in the previous drawing. :-)
No indeed.
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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)
It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.
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