Aesthetic Proportions

Golden section in mathematics, art and design

• The appeal of numbers
  • Numbers in history
  • Pythagorean aesthetics: symmetry and proportion
  • Platonic aesthetics: regular polygons and solids
  • Irrational proportions
• Proportion in mathematics
  • Algebra of the golden section
  • Fibonacci sequence
  • Golden section and fractals
• Proportion in art
  • Numeric approach to art & design
  • Historic appreciation of the divine proportion
• Proportion in design
  • Law of efficiency
  • Aesthetics of human proportions

Resources

• Sequences (World of Mathematics)
• The Magic of Fibonacci Numbers (Arthur Benjamin)
• Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Section (Ron Knott)
• The Golden Ratio & Fibonacci Numbers: Fact versus Fiction (Keith Devlin)
• Wau: The Most Amazing, Ancient, and Singular Number (Vi Hart)
• Grammars for Generative Art I–III (Mikael Hvidtfeldt Christensen)

Assignment

Context-free graphics

Algorithm Ink – CInk 2 – Context Free – Dwitter – Generate – Generate/Processing – Konte – Structure Synth

Gallery of context-free graphics  »