The golden section- a precise way of dividing a line, music or anything else showed up early in mathematics. It goes back at least as far as 300 B.C., when Euclid described it. The Pythagoreans also knew about the golden section around 500 B.C. The oldest examples of this principle, however, appear in nature's proportions, including the morphology of pine cones and starfish. Furthermore, "The golden section is thought by some people to offer the aesthetically most pleasing proportion."
Nature has many examples of the Golden Section or Divine Proportion. For example,the eye, fins and tail all fall at Golden Sections of the length of a dolphin's body. Phi is frequently expressed in many of Nature`s creations, and by varying the angle between adjacent radii, a number of Natural spirals and leafshapes can be created. |