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  2. List of works designed with the golden ratio - Wikipedia

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    Georges Seurat, 1887-88, Parade de cirque (Circus Sideshow) with a 4 : 6 ratio division and golden mean overlay, showing only a close approximation to the divine proportion. Matila Ghyka [30] and others [31] contend that Georges Seurat used golden ratio proportions in paintings like Parade de cirque, Le Pont de Courbevoie, and Bathers at ...

  3. List of mathematical artists - Wikipedia

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    Fine art: Mathematically-inspired proportion, including golden ratio (used as golden rectangles) [19] [35] Longhurst, Robert: 1949– Sculpture: Sculptures of minimal surfaces, saddle surfaces, and other mathematical concepts [36] Man Ray: 1890–1976: Fine art: Photographs and paintings of mathematical models in Dada and Surrealist art [37 ...

  4. Mathematics and art - Wikipedia

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    Mathematics and art are related in a variety of ways. Mathematics has itself been described as an art motivated by beauty. Mathematics can be discerned in arts such as music, dance, painting, architecture, sculpture, and textiles. This article focuses, however, on mathematics in the visual arts. Mathematics and art have a long historical ...

  5. Section d'Or - Wikipedia

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    The ratio of Seurat's painting/stretcher corresponded to a ratio of 1 to 1.502, ± 0.002 (as opposed to the golden ratio of 1 to 1.618). The compositional axes in the painting correspond to basic mathematical divisions (simple ratios that appear to approximate the golden section).

  6. Divina proportione - Wikipedia

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    Divina proportione (15th century Italian for Divine proportion), later also called De divina proportione (converting the Italian title into a Latin one) is a book on mathematics written by Luca Pacioli and illustrated by Leonardo da Vinci, completed by February 9th, 1498 [1] in Milan and first printed in 1509. [2]

  7. Fibonacci numbers in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    The house becomes a nexus for lost spirits. One character, Fiona, is given a choice to use it to free her father as well as the builder of the house, but ultimately chooses to free the spirits and destroys the nexus. The Fibonacci sequence is a main plot theme in the 2012 television show Touch, produced by Fox Network and starring Kiefer ...

  8. Golden ratio - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, two quantities are in the golden ratio if their ratio is the same as the ratio of their sum to the larger of the two quantities. Expressed algebraically, for quantities ⁠ a {\displaystyle a} ⁠ and ⁠ b {\displaystyle b} ⁠ with ⁠ a > b > 0 {\displaystyle a>b>0} ⁠ , ⁠ a {\displaystyle a} ⁠ is in a golden ratio to ...

  9. Relativity (M. C. Escher) - Wikipedia

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    Relativity is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in December 1953.The first version of this work was a woodcut made earlier that same year. [1]