Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Vicky 2 fails "divine proportion" height test

Tguyus opened this issue on Oct 15, 2003 ยท 16 posts


ryamka posted Wed, 15 October 2003 at 3:49 PM

There is a lot written about the so-called "divine" or "golden" ratio, especially how it relates to aesthetics in humans. Keeping the subject specific to proportions of anatomy (and not to other aesthetic or geometical observations), all of the conversations regarding this are strictly aesthetic. Look up real research where they have performed measurements on human populations and compared the results to the "golden" ratio, and guess what, it fails, big time! Now, I will not dispute that to me, the ratio does produce a pleasing proportion, but it does not reflect reality. It was an aesthetic choice that has been perpetuated by artists and so-called literates (romantics) who keep perpetuating the incorrect "fact" that the average human matches the ratio. Reality does not confirm this by any stretch. So, I am not arguing that the ratio is not useful or that there is anything inherently wrong with it (strictly referring to using it as a measure of anatomical proportions), but saying that it is the human norm and that Vicky is flawed because she does not match it is strictly silly. - Ray