Painting by Number -- The Magical "Pleasing Proportion"

It's that number again, .the one that painters, designers, scientists and mathematicians like.

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This superb CGI animation is by 3-D illustrator, animator and designer Cristóbal Vila, of Spain.       
With incredibly fitting music of Belgian minimalist composer Wim Mertens

It might be God's favorite number. (Probably he likes all numbers -- but He seems to have a special affinity for the irrational numbers, Phi and Pi.

It's the not too similar, not too different 
not too far, not too close,
not too square, not too rectangle
but just right....number.

It's the Goldilocks is mean number.
I mean the Golden mean number.  1,618

Video from http://www.ponderabout.com/archives/2...

                                          

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Mark Mitchell also hosts the Painting Instruction and How To Be A Children's Book Illustrator blogs.