technique

Golden rectangle

A rectangle whose width is 1.61803398875 (the golden ratio) times its height.

What it is

Covered here rather than as pages of their own — each is described by a single source, and gets promoted the moment a second one corroborates it.

A spiral traced through the corners of a golden rectangle recursively subdivided into smaller golden rectangles.

Contrast with: Golden spiral

Used to build: Golden spiral

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