Has anyone read Gramar of Ornamentation?
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- Redmond
I don't understand Proposition 9:
"As in every perfect work of Architecture a true proportion will be found to reign between all the members which compose it, so throughout the Decorative Arts every assemblage of forms should be arranged on certain definite proportions; the whole and each particular member should be a multiple of some simple unit.Those proportions will be the most beautiful which it will be most difficult for the eye to detect.
Thus the proportion of a double square, or 4 to 8, will be less beautiful than the more subtle ratio of 5 to 8; 3 to 6, than 3 to 7; 3 to 9, than 3 to 8; 3 to 4, than 3 to 5."
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Your basic unit should be made of two numbers that are not exponential, and not consecutive numbers?
- Amicus0
Look up Fibonacci sequences.
ie. 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89...
- Redmond0
You think it's just about the "golden spiral"?
- ukit20
With the disclaimer that I haven;t read the book you mentioned, it sounds like he's saying elements with less direct relationships will be visually more interesting. For instance think about a simple composition with two shapes, it would be more visually appealing most of the time to make one shape 1.6 times the other one (the 5 to 8 ratio he mentioned which is also the golden spiral) than to just make one twice the size.