Re: Re: Re: Golden Section and


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Posted by Me too... on February 29, 2004 at 01:30:39:

In Reply to: Re: Re: Golden Section and posted by Chris R on February 29, 2004 at 01:09:16:

Okay, I'll throw in here. It's said that Stradivari used the Golden Section to place the F-holes on his violins.

Of course, the Golden Section's been used in architecture and the visual arts and occurs in nature, but designing tubas using it seems not to be a good idea.

There are lots of people who claim other musical connections (black and white keys on a piano, opening of Beethoven's fifth, etc.) based on the Golden Section or Fibonacci numbers, but some of the theories seem to border on the sort of stuff that posits that Bigfoot is roaming the woods around here.

Below is a paper that talks about designing violin shapes using the Golden Section.


Chuck "who, decades ago, used Fibonacci numbers to implement a mass-storage allocation alogortihm"(G)


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