214 days ago
by Karson |
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The golden Mean or Golden Ratio is a number that people use when making items, buildings and furniture, They are determined a couple of different ways.
The number is used to determine proportions between pieces of the item being constructed.
One of the easiest to remember is to take 1 and 1 and then to add two consecutive numbers to get the next. The numbers in sequence are:
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89 etc. This might work if you were making something 89” tall and the ...
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1 day ago
by Jojo |
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Hi everybody,
We woodworkers are always struggling with proper design and proportions. Luckily there are a few standards set more or less in stone that help us cover the bases of our furniture drafting process. On the other hand, we Lumberjocks are always either on the workshop or with our faces glued to the screen, so today I thought useful to give you a little tip that would ease that elusive search of the El Dorado (no pun intended) of design: calculating The Golden Ratio or The Golden ...
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