The golden ratio—dispelling the myth [PDF]
Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive SurgeryBackground The purpose of this article is to explore the claims often cited in scientific journals regarding the golden ratio, and its proposed link to beauty and idealized forms in nature, including idealized human proportions.
Farhad B. Naini
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Golden Ratio Flap Designed Using the Golden Ratio Rectangle [PDF]
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global OpenBackground:. Rotation flaps are arcuate repairs that redistribute tension vectors and recruit adjacent and/or distant tissue laxity. The incision curve could be a logarithmic spiral curve to reduce the length of an incision.
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Golden ratio in venation patterns of dragonfly wings [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 The vein pattern in insect wings allows this lightweight structure to carry multiple biological functions. Here, an investigation of the angular distribution of the vein struts in dragonfly wings revealed that the golden angle or golden ratio dominates ...
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Golden ratio-based capital structure as a tool for boosting firm's financial performance and market acceptance [PDF]
Heliyon, 2022 In the 20th century, the golden ratio has been discovered by modern science, including economics, business, and finance. In the field of finance, the ratio is mostly applied for technical analysis, and much less attention is given to its use in solving ...
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Measurement of the neutral axis in avian eggshells reveals which species conform to the golden ratio. [PDF]
Ann N Y Acad Sci, 2022 Avian eggs represent a striking evolutionary adaptation for which shell thickness is crucial. An understudied eggshell property includes the neutral axis, a line that is drawn through any bent structure and whose precise location is characterized by the ...
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The golden ratio in baseball: the influence of historical eras on winning percentages in major league baseball [PDF]
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2023 IntroductionThe golden section or golden ratio (61.8% or 0.618) is a mathematical phenomenon that appears in art, literature, music and nature with such ubiquity that it is thought to be a fundamental principle of aesthetic organisation. The golden ratio
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Does 3-dimensional facial attractiveness relate to golden ratio, neoclassical canons, 'ideal' ratios and 'ideal' angles? [PDF]
Maxillofac Plast Reconstr Surg, 2022 Background The established recommendations and guidelines regarding ideal measurements for an attractive face are mostly based on data gathered among Caucasian population.
Zwahlen RA, Tang ATH, Leung WK, Tan SK.
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The golden ratio as an ecological affordance leading to aesthetic attractiveness. [PDF]
Psych J, 2022 The golden ratio (GR) is an irrational number (close to 1.618) that repeatedly occurs in nature as well as in masterpieces of art. The GR has been considered a proportion perfectly representing beauty since ancient times, and it was investigated in ...
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COVID-19 Detection by Optimizing Deep Residual Features with Improved Clustering-Based Golden Ratio Optimizer. [PDF]
Diagnostics (Basel), 2021 The COVID-19 virus is spreading across the world very rapidly. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a global pandemic on 11 March 2020. Early detection of this virus is necessary because of the unavailability of any specific drug.
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