Burton MacKenzie

This is a short and pretty video about the Golden Ratio [1]. I love the high level treatment (i.e. no hard math) and photographs of nature, which brings the beauty of the Golden Ratio to a wider audience.



The Golden Ratio is an optimally efficient point of operation for elements of growth in nature. That is the reason we find it so much! Like a ball rolling down a hill, coming to rest in a valley, nature always tries to optimize for the minimal energy configuration. Here we often find the Golden Ratio.

In the video they showed a resistive ladder, which also caught my eye because I recently discovered a similar circuit configuration whose solution contains the Golden Ratio as well. (Coming in a future post sometime)

Burton MacKenZie www.burtonmackenzie.com

[1] This video was made by a team of 4, including cmegans, who uploaded this video to youtube. Nice work. Click directly on the video (but not in the centre), and I believe it will open a window directly with youtubes page. Or click on the centre to watch it here.