Friday 15 October 2010

The Golden Section

The Golden Section is a rule relating to composition which hails from the twelfth century. An Italian mathematician who was famous for creating a number sequence which starts with 0,1. By adding the second number to the first in the sequence and then dividing that second number by the previous you end up returning to Phi. 

0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89........
Superimposed on the images below it can be seen how this rule is applied ......

1 comment:

  1. Hi
    These theories were often used in construction in that period and were quickly adopted by artists to identify values in their own work in a scientific manner. There are no rules really in photography but only those adopted to try and make sense of creative chaos.

    Steve

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