Filed under: Design, Windows, Freeware, Windows x64
Phiculator makes it easy to use the Golden Ratio in your designs
by Lee Mathews May 25th 2009 at 4:00PM
The Golden Ratio has been used in design for ages. Such greats as DaVinci, Michaelangelo, Rembrandt, Mondrian, and LeCorbusier utilized it in many of their works.Even Mother Nature utilizes the proportion - in nautilus shells and pine cones, for example.
For a simple way to put it to work in your own designs, download Phiculator. It's available as a free app for Windows and as an OsX widget.
Punch a number into either the large or small section, press the phi button, and the result is displayed. If you'd prefer a nice, round figure use the phi/int option instead. To reset and display the Golden Mean, just press the CB:AC button.
And yes, even the Phiculator's interface makes use of the ratio. Clever!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jimiisama said 4:46PM on 5-25-2009
I like the app layout. Pretty funny.
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ellipse1000 said 3:17AM on 5-28-2009
Da Vinci, Le Corbusier: please note the space between the articles and nouns. Thank you.
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Drewsky said 9:14PM on 5-26-2009
You can type "phi * 800" in a google search box and it will give you 494.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=phi+*800&btnG=Search&cts=1243386500118
But if it was an iPhone app, I'd pay $10 for it ;-)
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canttell said 3:14PM on 6-03-2009
I love this thing omg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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