"beauty is in the phi of the beholder"

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Yes, apparently, beauty has a mathematical equivalent.

In the Mind Museum, I came across this exhibit: examples of the Golden ratio -- phi -- and how it relates to people's perception of beauty. I cringed; art has some mathematics in it as well?!?

However, I shouldn't really have been so shocked when I came across this infinitely long number. After all, it's been introduced in the Dan Brown novel Da Vinci Code (which now has a movie adaptation). The fictional Louvre curator, Jacques Sauniere, used the Fibonacci sequence as the password for his Swiss bank account. This same sequence translates to the "golden spiral", the invisible curve that the eyes follow when looking for the center of a photo's subject.

It does look like there's order in chaos and there's math in beauty. There's no escaping math!

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