The Divine Section, also known as the Golden Ratio, is the first principle of nature's design I could think of and that I have already put into occasional use in my design work. As I began researching it, the concept became more and more interesting.
The Divine Section is a line segment sectioned into two according to the golden ratio. The total length "a+b" is to the longer segment "a" as "a" is to the shorter segment "b"
Zeising wrote in 1854:
The Golden Ratio is a universal law in which is contained the ground-principle of all formative striving for beauty and completeness in the realms of both nature and art, and which permeates, as a paramount spiritual ideal, all structures, forms and proportions, whether cosmic or individual, organic or inorganic, acoustic or optical; which finds its fullest realization, however, in the human form.
The Divine Section is seen in Nature in the human body's proportions among other things. It is also linked to the Fibonacci Sequence and the Golden Spiral. I hope to explore these interlinked concepts in future posts. I also hope to explore the underlying ideas linking these concepts together, and the purpose of these designs in nature.
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