Divine Proportion In Nature

The Divine Proportion Also known as the Golden Section

Is where the ratio of the whole line (A) to the large segment (B) is the same as the ratio of the large segment (B) to the small segment (C).

The Divine Proportion in Nature There are many examples of the Golden Section or Divine Proportion in nature. file:///C:/Documents and Settings/Owner/My Documents/Divine Proportion in Nature_files/dolphin.gif

The eye, fins and tail all fall at golden sections of the length of a dolphin's body. The dimensions of the dorsal fin are golden sections   (yellow and green). The thickness of the dolphin's tail section corresponds to same golden section of the line from head to tail.

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The eye-like markings of this moth fall at golden sections of the lines that mark its width and length. file:///C:/Documents and Settings/Owner/My Documents/Divine Proportion in Nature_files/moth.gif

The spiral growth of sea shells provide a simple, but beautiful, example . . .

The Divine Proportion Its use may have started in Egypt with the building of the Pyramids.

The Greeks referred to it as the “dividing line between mean and the extreme” and used it in architecture for balance and beauty.

Renaissance artists were the first to refer to it as the Divine Proportion and used in art for beauty and balance.