Da Vinci's Use of Sacred Geometry

Golden Art | Picture You can do some pretty cool stuff with the golden ratio. The image above is made from taking each quarter-circle in the golden spiral and expanding it into a full circle. In the second image, the spiral and the golden rectangles are overlaid on the the first image, showing how it works. The length of the radius of the nth circle is 1/phi^(n-1). The image above is made by connecting the the center of one circle to the center of the circle in the next iteration (or the corner of one square to the corner of the next), using it for the side of a pentagon which is then turned into a star. Anyway, there's some really awesome stuff you can do with the Golden Ratio and these are just a couple of them.

Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn Bridget Louise Riley (1931) is an English painter and one of the foremost proponents of op art. Related: Karel Martens Folkert The secret of creation lies in the wave The secret of creation lies in the wave Diagrams and paintings by "outsider scientific-mystic" Walter Russell Thanks to Yann for the tip Will 50 Watts