Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Vicky 2 fails "divine proportion" height test

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


Tguyus posted Wed, 15 October 2003 at 12:17 PM

I've always thought Vicky 2's legs looked too stubby and now I think I have proof.

I was doing some reading the other day about the mathematical value PHI (a.k.a. the "divine proportion", which has a value about 1.618) which occurs throughout nature. A prime example is that the quotient of adjacent values in a fibonacci sequence moves toward PHI:

1
1 1.000
2 2.000
3 1.500
5 1.667
8 1.600
13 1.625
21 1.615
34 1.619
55 1.618
89 1.618
144 1.618
233 1.618
377 1.618
and so on

Another supposed manifestation of the divine proportion is that the ratio of a person's height to the distance from their navel to the floor usually equals PHI.

So I used lesbentley's calipers to measure this ratio for Vicky 2, and as I suspected she comes up short (her out-of-the-box ratio is 1.636, even after zeroing her body part bends). Vicky 2's ratio would be 1.619 if her shins were y-scaled to 105%.

I haven't tried this for V3 or any of the other figures, nor have I checked other proportions on the human body which are supposed to have a ratio equal to PHI (e.g., I believe there's one for fingertips to shoulder divided by fingertips to elbow), but I'm wondering if DAZ might not want to consider making their millenium figures more "divine."