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The Golden Rectangle

If it's so attractive, why isn't it everywhere?

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James Gurney
Jun 03, 2024
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One last question before we leave the topic of the golden mean: Is the "golden rectangle" really more attractive than other rectangles? 

The answer was not what I expected, and not what I wanted to hear.

I had always accepted as an aesthetic axiom that the golden section rectangle (1.618 long by 1 wide) represented the ideal, even "divine" proportion. Was…

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