>>5229545>I mean it's important if you want to have good compositionIt has absolutely no special meaning in good composition. Placing a picture element vaguely around the 1.618 ratio is just as beautiful as placing it exactly at 1.618. Placing it at 1.5 is just as beautiful. Placing it at 2 (that is, at a two thirds point) is beautiful. Placing it at center (1:1 ratio) is profoundly beautiful. Different pictures have different opportunities for composition, and 1.618 never has a special meaning.
Besides, when people say that the golden ratio appears everywhere in nature, they've misunderstood the whole idea. It's GEOMETRIC SEQUENCES that appear everywhere, not the golden ratio. The spirals in certain flowers, cauliflowers, galaxies etc. are geometric series and do not follow the ratio of 1.618 any more likely than they do other random ratios. And there is no golden ratio in human body segments, limbs or ears unless you force statistical errors of upwards of +-20%.
One more example of maths nerds convincing people of their stupid theories that have no experimental bearing on the world.
