Porter’s Golden Section, Experimentally

Year: 2008 Authors: Chris Bartlett; D Huylebrouck

Core claim

The authors suggest Porter’s paintings may use phi relationships, yet their experiment needs revision because observed choices may only appear to corroborate golden ratio composition.

Topics

golden section, painting composition, experimental perception, statistical analysis

Domains

ratio and proportion, curve fitting, matrix methods, painting, art composition, visual harmony

Methods

participant marking experiment, statistical analysis, generalized inverse fitting

Media

reproductions of paintings, Mona Lisa reproduction, Mathematica

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