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A root-phi rectangle divides into a pair of Kepler triangles (right triangles with edge lengths in geometric progression). The root-φ rectangle is a dynamic rectangle but not a root rectangle. Its diagonal equals φ times the length of the shorter side. If a root-φ rectangle is divided by a diagonal, the result is two congruent Kepler triangles.
Dynamic symmetry is a proportioning system and natural design methodology described in Hambidge's books. The system uses dynamic rectangles, including root rectangles based on ratios such as √ 2, √ 3, √ 5, the golden ratio (φ = 1.618...), its square root (√ φ = 1.272...), and its square (φ 2 = 2.618....), and the silver ratio (=).
A rectangle is a rectilinear polygon: its sides meet at right angles. A rectangle in the plane can be defined by five independent degrees of freedom consisting, for example, of three for position (comprising two of translation and one of rotation), one for shape (aspect ratio), and one for overall size (area).
A rectangle with edges in ratio √2 ∶ 1 can be created from a square piece of paper with an origami folding sequence. Considered a proportion of great harmony in Japanese aesthetics — Yamato-hi (大和比) — the ratio is retained if the √2 rectangle is folded in half, parallel to the short edges.
In geometry, a golden rectangle is a rectangle with side lengths in golden ratio +:, or :, with approximately equal to 1.618 or 89/55. Golden rectangles exhibit a special form of self-similarity : if a square is added to the long side, or removed from the short side, the result is a golden rectangle as well.
Simple example of an R-tree for 2D rectangles Visualization of an R*-tree for 3D points using ELKI (the cubes are directory pages). R-trees are tree data structures used for spatial access methods, i.e., for indexing multi-dimensional information such as geographical coordinates, rectangles or polygons.
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The article says that root rectangles are part of the broader group of dynamic rectangles. It also says that dynamic rectangles have irrational (in the mathematical sense) proportions. But a lot of root rectangles have rational proportions. Hambidge himself illustrates a root-4 rectangle, which is rational. So is root-1, a square.