Thread: 1 : 1.618

I just saw an interesting program on Discovery channel. This guy found that almost everything in the average supermodel body is done on the aforementioned ratio. i.e.:
Front incisor length : length of that other tooth next to it.
Length of first bone in finger : length of second bone in finger
Width of mouth : Width of nose

NOTE: the above ratios are actually backwards.

Anyway - so beacuse your noce makes several triangles, they made an isosceles trinagle with a ratio on the sides of 1 : 1.618.
If you bisect the legs and extend them to 180(5-1)(5) degree angles, it makes a regular pentagon. It's matches exactly with lines drawn from the tip of the nose, to the cheek bones, to each side of the chin when they'
re smiling. Cool huh?

I just saw an interesting program on Discovery channel. This guy found that almost everything in the average supermodel body is done on the aforementioned ratio.

what a nice job to have...

Isn't that just known as the 'Golden Ratio', which has been around and studied for quite some time?
The egyptians knew about this all those years ago and built their pyramids with it.
For some reason, things that posses the quality of the having the 'golden ratio' are more appealing than those without.
I believe the statue 'David' was designed around this concept as well (I forget where I heard that though).

A random site about it from google:
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.golden.ratio.html

Yeah - but the thing with the triangles is new. It was actually rediscovered in modern times, when they looked at that picutre of the naked guy with 4 legs and all these lines measured out - they found that every box had that ratio. They also did a segment on that - on why athletes are often good looking - if they're symmetrical, not only are they better looking, but their bodies move much smoother, and hence they can run faster.

This reminds me of the Movie "Pi"; guy stuck a drill into the side of his head at the end of the movie.