Anyone design beautiful projects?

[ejs1097]

By that I mean in accordance to the mathematical definition of beauty equaling 1.618

Beauty has been defined in proportion to 1.618. If this is new to you, it is scientifically preceived as most pleasing to humans. Take a beautiful face for example. The raito of the face is 1.618 times the size of the forehead (that leaves me out). The ratio of the eyes is 1.618 times the distance of the spacing between the eyes. examples og on and on with the human body. A study of 20 some faces ranging from severly disfigured to beautiful shows that thousands of people across the world will rank the faces exactly the same regardless of race, ethnicity, etc as the ratios get closer to 1.618. The Parthenon and MichealAngelo's "David" use 1.618 in design

I've seen this at several places and 1 TV show even mentioned fine woodworking is designed on the concept.

Does anyone here pay attention to this when considering dimisions? any examples. height to width ratios? depths? drawers? that you use.

I haven't gotten that fancy and typically build based upon practical needs of a piece such as a bookcase or chair height.

[Garasaki]

I do. Although I drop the stuff after the 6 (just use 1.6). And I don't hold tremendously fast and true to it. More of a starting point. IE I am working on a little shoe changing bench...the dimensions you see looking from the front will be L = 1.6 * height (on both the inside and outside of the legs/skirt ), but I had to modify the top (and therefore the side) dimensions to "feel" right (basically I designed around 2 butts barely being able to fit on it).

So I typically try to use it as a starting point in the design. I should also add that I'm pretty new to this game....

[LCHIEN]

The fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio and a tool for marking lengths of this proportion were discussed here about 3 weeks ago:

http://www.bt3central.com/showthread...ight=fibonacci

[ejs1097]

The fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio and a tool for marking lengths of this proportion were discussed here about 3 weeks ago:

http://www.bt3central.com/showthread...ight=fibonacci

I was Out of Town that week and didn't see the thread. Cabinetman mentioned using it in design.

I was curious to see if anyone used it in their designs and how it was applied.

[Russianwolf]

chess boards look silly when you apply this rule..........

[cabinetman]

Cabinetman mentioned using it in design.

Gee, maybe I did. I think the reference I made to the Golden Ratio was that when the perspective gets to a pleasing view, it's within the parameters of the ratio. After many years of making drawings for jobs and not knowing about the ratio, one develops an "eye" for what works and what doesn't. It was a matter of just looking at the drawing and envisioning how it visually balances out.

Then, after becoming aware of the ratio, it provides the relative proportions that most of the time look pretty good.

[Knottscott]

I usually go with what looks right. Depending on what it is, the golden ratio usually "looks right" to me.