PHI (pronounce as fee) =1.618
The number PHI was derived from the Fibonacci sequence - a progression famous not only because the sum of adjacent terms equalled the next term, but because the quotients of adjacent terms possessed the astonishing property of approaching the number 1.618 - PHI.
PHI, its role as a fundamental building block in nature. Plants animals and even human beings all possessed dimensional properties that adhere exactitude to the ratio of PHI to 1.
PHI ubiquity in nature clearly exceeds coincidence, and so the ancients assumed the number PHI must have been preordained by the creator of the universe. Early scientists heralded 1.618 as the Divine Proportion.
Belows are examples of Divine Proportion in Nature:
If you divide the number of female bees by the number of male bees in any beehives in the world, you always get the same number.
PHI! 1.618
Sunflower seeds grow in opposing spirals. The ratio of each rotation's diameter to the next...
PHI! 1.618
Leonardo Da Vinci understood the divine structure of the human body. He actually exhumed corpses to measure the exact proportions of the human bone structure. He was the first to show that the human body is literally made of building blocks whose proportional ratios always equal to PHI.
Below is Leonardo Da Vinci's famous male nude - The Vitruvian Man - named for Marcus Vitruvius, the brilliant Roman architect who praised the Divine Proportion in his text De Architectura.
Try measuring the distance from the tip of your head to the floor. Then divide that by the distance from your belly button to the floor.
PHI! 1.618
Measure the distance from your shoulder to your fingertips and then divide it by the distance from your elbow to your finger tips.
PHI! 1.618
Measure hip to floor divided by knee to floor.
PHI! 1.618
I'm very very impresed with this. One of these days I'll really try the human body measurement. *grinz*
No comments:
Post a Comment