Instructor: Lindsay Knapp
University of Southern Maine/Center for Continuing Education
email: lindsay@designtosite.com

Other examples of fibs & goldens:

•the seed placement of pine cones & sunflowers
•the golden rectangle of National Geographic Magazine
•credit cards
•the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci, among others*
•piano keyboards (5 black keys, 8 white keys, 8 keys to an octave)
•the majority of Mozart sonatas divide into 2 parts at the golden section
•the ‘motto’ in Beethoven’s Fifth appears first and last, but also at the golden section
•see ‘golden string’ at http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fib.html
•see ‘golden sequence’ at http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fib.html

*many books on both painting and photography point out that the central object of the piece should be positioned in two-thirds of the frame. that spacing creates a golden section or rectangle which makes the composition more pleasing to the eye.