Charles Moir has published two excellent and instructive web pages, Screen Sizes, showing the common sizes with bewildering screen size acronyms, and Browser Fonts, showing all the body copy 'web safe' fonts in a variety of common sizes.
I find it particularly interesting to verify that the Wide Extended Graphics Array monitors -- Super, Ultra and Quad -- comes in the Golden Section proportion with 1.618:1 ratio.
1. WSXGA+ screen size 1680x1050, wide super;
2. WUXGA screen size 1920x1200, wide ultra;
3. WQXGA screen size 2560x1600, wide quad.
As the Golden Section is found in the design and beauty of nature, it can also be used to achieve beauty and balance in the design of art. This is only a tool though, and not a rule, for composition.
The Golden Section was used extensively by Leonardo Da Vinci. Note how all the key dimensions of the room and the table in Da Vinci's "The Last Supper" were based on the Golden Section, which was known in the Renaissance period as The Divine Proportion.
The Golden Section is a ratio based on a phi, the golden number. The Golden Section is also known as the Golden Mean, Golden Ratio and Divine Proportion. It is a ratio or proportion defined by the number Phi ( Ø = 1.618033988749895... ).
"Without mathematics there is no art", Luca Pacioli, close friend of Leonardo Da Vinci in Milan, stated in Divina proportione published in 1509. This was the first of the three books which finally made up the treatise, and it studied the Golden Ratio which is the ratio a : b = b : (a + b).
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Cheers, Anders
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