{"id":23008,"date":"2012-09-14T19:29:08","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T19:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/golden-bullshit\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T21:45:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T04:45:14","slug":"golden-bullshit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/golden-bullshit\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-23008 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/golden-bullshit\/attachment\/23009\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lofkjcvjrf1qgytx7o1_500-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lofkjcvjrf1qgytx7o1_500-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lofkjcvjrf1qgytx7o1_500-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lofkjcvjrf1qgytx7o1_500.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/venomousporridge.com\/post\/7704922410\/golden-bullshit\">dwineman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.seoulbrother.com\/post\/7694628694\">seoulbrother<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I guess I don\u2019t know how this works. For example: how do you determine where the 8-circles go. Oh, I see, three of them rest on each other at the top. But what about the 8 that intersects with the other 8 to form the leaf? What\u2019s going on there? It looks like it\u2019s bisected by the pink rectangle but not by the green and the circumference doesn\u2019t rest on any of the lines. Do you just move it along the pink line until you\u2019re happy with the way the leaf looks?<\/p>\n<p>And what\u2019s going on with 13 there? Is it supposed to define the height of the apple? If so, why is it a little taller than the height-through-center? Maybe it\u2019s the guide by which to align the 1, 2, 3, 5 and 8-circles around the\u2026 and where did those two blue lines come from?<\/p>\n<p>I get where the proportions come from but I\u2019m dumb about this application. But this <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Laon_Cathedral%27s_regulator_lines.jpg\">picture of the Laon Cathedral<\/a> and this <a href=\"http:\/\/knol.google.com\/k\/the-golden-ratio-of-branding-and-success#\">article about modern logo designs that use the ratio<\/a> makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>Again, I\u2019m dumb about this and open to explanation.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: And because there\u2019s no source listed, I can\u2019t email the person that\u2019s making this stuff up.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It isn\u2019t entirely bullshit. The sizes of the squares in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Golden_spiral\">golden spiral<\/a> (the pink thing) are elements of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fibonacci_number\">Fibonacci sequence<\/a>: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13. And the radii of some of the circles from which the apple is constructed follow this sequence, apparently. Looks like the 13-circle was fudged a bit, but it\u2019s close.<\/p>\n<p>But the pink overlay in this diagram makes no sense whatsoever. It doesn\u2019t circumscribe or bisect or in any way relate to anything else. The green rectangle is a golden ratio, but I guess you\u2019re supposed to ignore the fact that it doesn\u2019t match the width of the image. And the blue lines don\u2019t serve any purpose at all.<\/p>\n<p>No, this is just a minor observation about a few carefully selected proportions in the Apple logo dressed up to look profound. Sorry to disappoint.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>dwineman: seoulbrother: I guess I don\u2019t know how this works. For example: how do you determine where the 8-circles go. Oh, I see, three of them rest on each other at the top. But what about the 8 that intersects with the other 8 to form the leaf? What\u2019s going on there? It looks like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-5Z6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23010,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23008\/revisions\/23010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}