#ratio and proportion

[collophora]

Fics rec of the week, and especially if you like well-written Wrecker, is the entire work of @electrikworm on AO3 In order:

The Batch have a terrible day

Human Shield

A peaceful moment

(But go read the others too)

[wewerebornsextuplets]

trying to brush up on how i mimic the show's style

[sufficientlylargen]

I've found my new favorite units chart (from wikimedia commons).

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Golden Ratio

The Mona Lisa is a famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), a Renaissance artist and scientist.

The painting depicts a woman with a mysterious smile and a landscape background. One of the reasons why the Mona Lisa is so admired is because of its use of the golden ratio, a mathematical proportion that is considered to be aesthetically pleasing and harmonious.

The golden ratio, also known as the divine proportion, is a ratio of approximately 1.618 that can be found in nature, art, architecture, music, and geometry.

It is expressed by the Greek letter phi (Φ) and can be derived from the Fibonacci sequence.

The golden ratio can be seen in the Mona Lisa in several ways. For example, if a rectangle bounds the face and this rectangle is divided by drawing a line across her eyes, it creates another golden rectangle.

The result is that the ratio of the length of Mona Lisa’s head to her eyes is also that of the golden ratio.

Another example is that if a triangle is drawn from her chin to her eyes and to the top of her head, it forms a golden triangle, which has angles of 36°, 72°, and 72°.

The golden triangle can also be found in other parts of the painting, such as the shape of her nose and mouth.

Da Vinci was fascinated by the golden ratio and its connection to nature, art, and geometry. He illustrated a book called "The Divine Proportion" by Luca Pacioli, a mathematician and friend of Da Vinci.

The book explores the mathematical and artistic properties of the golden ratio and its applications in various fields. Da Vinci also used the golden ratio in some of his other works, such as The Last Supper and The Vitruvian Man.

The use of the golden ratio in the Mona Lisa shows Da Vinci’s skill and knowledge as an artist and a scientist.

He was able to create a realistic and harmonious portrait that captures the beauty and mystery of the human face. The Mona Lisa is not only a masterpiece of art but also a testament to the power and elegance of mathematics.

[thebreadmantm]

I’m making a reference sheet for tma but it’s taking me forever because every time I come back to it I need to redraw Tim and make him cuntyer

[nr1-logo-design-inspiration]

Pigeon logo - creative process ♡

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[stormofdefiance]

Dkdkdkdks this is not a serious analysis in any way at all but the podcast I’m listening to has started going through Plato’s dialogues & in one of them (The Symposium) an excruciatingly handsome young man, Alcibiades, tries desperately to seduce Socrates with his good looks in the hopes of gleaning more wisdom from him. In it Socrates does get into bed with him, but all that goes down is Socrates ‘not moving at all’ and rambling endlessly on about philosophy. Idk I’m just pishing myself, this is just so incredibly Ratio/Aventurine core dndndndxndn

[almightyramtha]

complained, got upset, started drawing better

what.

Anyway have some my Vaana Tav BG3

[gaytwirights]

avatar : god :: god : dead

thinking about Behemo/s and her complicated identity again on this fine sunday evening

[uhhhhmanda]

welp

I've written (checks notes) 727,110 words of fanfiction across 15 fandoms and JUST TODAY I had my first omegaverse fic idea. 😔

[unopenablebox]

man. people leave the nicest comments on my fic

[jazzypizzaz]

several years ago I lost a bunch of weight (won't get into it) bought a bunch of new (thrifted) pants cuz it was about when covid vaccines came online and also I got a new job and I figured I needed real clothes to be out in Public lol, BUT I suck at shopping so the pants were in a range of sizes that were ill-fitting & too big to different degrees

anyway fast forward, and I've gained some of the weight back, but throughout the process I've had always pants to wear because of my ~excellent shopping skills. that's (unintentional) foresight baybeeee!!! getting to the end of the range though

[rubyvroom]

Okay, explain this to me like I'm 5.

Letterboxing.

Once upon a time television screens were square. When movies were shown on television (and once home video became an option) the films would be sliced up in what was known as a Pan-and-Scan to make the rectangle film appear on a square TV. This was, to gravely understate the case, not ideal. You lose a LOT of the image when you do this, as you can see below.

so sometime in the 90s (as I recall) Letterboxing became an alternative. to probably oversimplify, it added a strip to the top and the bottom of the screen so that you could get all of the width of the original shot onto the square tv. This makes sense. This was an improvement. You'd want to see the letterbox option above rather than the pan-and-scan, right?

Here's where I get confused.

TVs are not shaped like squares anymore! They're rectangles! They're rectangles precisely for this reason, so we could get the widescreen aspect for film-watching!

So WHY are films still letterboxed?

When I want to watch a movie on my current TV it often looks like this:

But look at all that extra screen! I want to use every bit of my rectangle screen and have the image be bigger. I understand it distorts the image to fill the whole screen but not nearly as much as it did for a square tv. What did I get this rectangle screen for if it still has to be letterboxed, basically? I am confusion.

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[soullessjack]

why is my hamster so fucking ugly

[dreams-and-honor]

@ my last comment about Xal being sexualized

if you draw her with hentai girl proportions; I do not fucking trust you

If you draw her looking like an actual animated corpse; step into my parlor