Golden ratio discovered in uterus

[n2doc]

The golden ratio is a scientific nugget that has, for at least two thousand years, belonged as much to mysticism as to mathematics.

It is just a number – 1.618 – but to its devotees the ratio expresses aesthetic perfection, and can be found wherever there is beauty.

For example, they argue that of all the rectangles in the world the most pleasing to the eye has a ratio of length to width of 1.618.

And of all the smiles in the world, they maintain that the most beautiful have their central incisors 1.618 wider than their lateral incisors, which are 1.618 wider than their canines, and so on down through the molars.

There are web pages devoted to where else on the human face you can find the golden ratio, which is also known as the golden section, golden proportion or golden mean.


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http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2012/aug/14/golden-ratio-uterus

This will generate lots of pick up lines, I'm sure....

[MADem]

1. Hilarity within that article, which was very interesting, too...

The author can flip one the "golden finger" if he has a mind....

[Freddie]

2. Aha! Something in your uterus besides jobs!

[dipsydoodle]

3. Purely in the interest of science you will understand

I'd better check on this to validate it.

Ratio is more or less 8:5.

[tridim]

4. I use a program called Phibar which picks color palletes based on the golden ratio.

It works equally well for websites and for painting your walls.



http://www.goldennumber.net/color/

[drokhole]

6. That's really cool, thanks! nt

[Thor_MN]

9. I pick color schemes that everyone tells me are FUBAR

[drokhole]

5. Interesting video on "How Fractal Patterns Perpetuate Through a Tree, and then a Forest"...

(the golden ratio and fractals pretty much go hand in hand)

[DCKit]

7. Having been an avid observer of straight male behavior for several decades...

I was sure they'd find something golden a bit farther down.

[Orsino]

8. So *that's* where I left it.

My bad.

[HopeHoops]

10. "Hey baby, can I check out your golden ratio?"