Math is the closest thing to God.

[Chemical]

My geometry teacher made us look up the number PHI (the "divine proportion) after he read The DaVinci Code. Its supposed to be the basis for physical proportions in life, like figuring out a person's arm length.

Confusing stuff...

This relates to the Golden Sect (see previous post on Page 1)

Actually, those theories are interesting. As an artist, I'm very familiar with those concepts. Fingertip to fingertip, outstretched, is exactly the same length as the hight of the individual. And dozens of other little things. Our bodies follow certian proportions... and proportion is just math, nothing more or less than. So, even biology obeys math in the end.

Ever wonder why some people are dispreportioned? Some people have legs shorter on one side, or some people seem completely dispreportioned... I think that the ideas of these relations is trying to premote the "Unniversal Man." Or the perfect specimen...

However, I think if you actually took measurements of all your friends and yourself you may find that the relation is not exact. Perhaps close... but probably differs from person to person.

[udsuna]

Actually, assuming nothing is wrong with the "specimen"- most proportions are exact. My finger-to-finger span is 6'2", same as my heights. Held strait, and not curved along the face, a handspan is exactly the size of the face. Some things, such as legs proportionately compared to torso, vary from example to example. And, then there are certain hormone (especially growth hormones) that, if in the wrong quantity, alter the body shape.

[Lindy]

I'd rather spend my time enjoying the world in the blink of existance's eye that I have than spend it trying to extract and analyse every little detail of it.

[K-chan]

Actually, those theories are interesting. As an artist, I'm very familiar with those concepts. Fingertip to fingertip, outstretched, is exactly the same length as the hight of the individual. And dozens of other little things. Our bodies follow certian proportions... and proportion is just math, nothing more or less than. So, even biology obeys math in the end.

It does sound kinda neat when you put it that way. ^^

[Chemical]

Udsuna

You have to remember, as human beings we are not perfect. There are very limited amount of people who live up to the expectations of being a perfect specimen.

Even though I find the idea of the PHI ratio to be interesting. It strikes me as being pretentious.

When photography first came out it was utilized to categorize criminals and mentally unstable people... and the features amoung these people were measured. Their head size, their facial features... This was just a way of premoting Eugenics. The Superiority of a race.

I find this specimen of the "perfect man" to be equal to these previous observations that were later realised to be flawed. People aren't the same and that doesn't make them flawed. It makes them human.

[Dingo Jellybean]

Actually, those theories are interesting. As an artist, I'm very familiar with those concepts. Fingertip to fingertip, outstretched, is exactly the same length as the hight of the individual. And dozens of other little things. Our bodies follow certian proportions... and proportion is just math, nothing more or less than. So, even biology obeys math in the end.

I don't think biology actually follows math in this case, if math you mean by exact. I'm 6' even, but my wingspan is 6'4". My brother is 6'3" yet his wingspan is around 6'1". I'm not sure if that has something to do with my nutrition or what not, but my fingers are just a tad longer than my brothers' also. I think as you get older, your bones begin to separate a little from their joints, giving you slightly longer fingers when you're older, I'm not sure if this is true in general, but you would have to consider age a factor too.

However, I know in botany, certain plants follow fibonacci numbers and such. And obviously, chemical reactions can be measured in a mathematical basis and be concluded to do exactly as that chemical reaction has done before just based on math data.