I've been told (although I don't know for sure if this is true) that the
human eye's visual range (width to height) approximates the Golden
Ratio. However, this wouldn't explain why we find upright Golden Ratios
to be so visually appealing.

It does, however, match pretty much to the dimensions chosen for
standard TV sets (NTSC). THe same goes for landscape style painting and
pictures ... the GR just looks better.

Jack

Enoch Root wrote:
Steve DeMars wrote:


"Phil" dirigo @ spamcop . net (delete the spaces) wrote in message
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Thought I'd post this for the inquiring minds here. No
affiliation, I have just seen this come up a few times.

http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/other/phi/


Excuse my ignorance . . . but how would one apply this to woodworking
and what is it?


Try here, for starters:

http://home.comcast.net/~charliebcz/...Ratio/GM1.html

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