Guess what I just figured out?

I was cropping some photographs, and it occurred to me that they might look better if instead of using the 7x5 standard of a regular photograph, I used something a bit wider, so I tried an 8x5 ratio instead. And it looked better. Then for some reason the thought occurred to me to use the golden rectangle to determine the size. So I looked that up, and found this:



But looking at it, I was like "Hey wait... That's the same ratio as my image here that I've cropped already. And isn't 800x500 the native resolution I used in my space beetles game? So doesn't that mean..."

So I scaled the image up to 1920 pixels wide, and lo and behold it was the same size as my screen.

So the 16:10 displays now in use on PC's follow the golden rectangle, or pretty damn close to it. :-)

ah, very interesting.

Awww, I thought you'd figured out how to turn base metals into nuggets of pure green.

Yeah, an interesting discovery. I expect Slenkar will be along shortly to explain how it's all part of a global conspiracy involving Freemasons, and the illegitimate son of JFK and Elvis.

The Goldene Schnitt is a classic and great but aren't most displays produced in a 16:9 instead of a 16:10 format?!

Nope. Widescreen PC displays are 16:10, while HDTV is 16:9.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Vector_Video_Standards2.svg

Here they call PC displays 8:5 but I don't like calling it that. :-)

There are even a fair few 16:10 televisions now too. 16:10 looks like it's going to be the normal aspect ratio at some point, it's just a matter of time.

There are both formats available for displays (also computers), i mainly had to deal with 16:9 so far.

Maybe I'm missing something but, so what?

Darkheart

16:10 TV's? And 16:9 PC displays? What are you guys smoking??? :-)

Seriously, show me any retail store website with a 16:10 TV or a 16:9 LCD monitor listed.

The main HDTV resolutions are 16:9 resolutions. Why would anyone make a TV which is 16:10, when every movie and TV show you display on it would have to have black bars of some sort?

Darkheart:
The golden ratio/rectangle is used by artists the world over. Even the ancient romans used it in the construction of their buildings. It's a shape found in nature, and as such is pleasing to the eye.

So someone knew what they were doing when they made PC displays 16:10 when HDTV's were being made to be 16:9. I just thought that was interesting. I didn't understand before why they might have made the two use diffeent standards, other than 16:9 being awfully wide for something you're gonna be doing word processing on.

(TV's were made 16:9 because that is a common movie aspect ratio, and it was probably chosen over 16:10 originally for some obscure reason having to do with film way back in the day.)

Yeah, sure :

http://www.richersounds.com/showproduct.php?cda=showproduct&pid=LG-22LS4D

1680x1050 which is 16:10.

Taumel's right too. When widescreen monitors first came out, a lot were 16:9. Not much now, but two or three years back.

Lots of films I watch on my 16:9 TV have black bars at the top and bottom because they are 2.35:1

I said every movie, not some movies. :-)

Obviously you can't avoid having black bars sometimes, but it would be downright retarded to choose an aspect ratio where no movie or TV show will ever appear without black bars.

DIJ:
That's a 22" set. They only used 16:10 because they were too cheap to make a 22" panel specifically for small televisions, and that's a major computer monitor manufacturer.

No major retailer in the US carries something like that.

I just checked. Not Best Buy, not Circuit City, not even Walmart, king of cheap crap, sells 16:10 tv's even at that small size, from what I can tell. Maybe if you looked really hard you could find one model at those stores, but I doubt it. And even if you did... one TV out of 100 models is still effectively no TV's with that aspect ratio.




And that was probably for the same reason as that one LG TV you found. Back then there were no 16:10 monitors being made, but they were making 16:9 HDTV's, so whoever released those widescreen monitors first was probably a TV maker or two trying to branch out, like Westinghouse is doing now with their crapola monitors.

My point still stands that you're smoking something if you think 16:10 is even remotely in wide use for TV's or that it is going to replace 16:9 which is a movie standard and the HDTV standard. There is no movement that I know of towards a 16:10 HDTV resolution, nor a movement to make any movies or TV shows in that aspect ratio. One 16:10 TV in a tiny size made by a PC monitor maker doesn't refute this in any way.

it does SOUND LIKE the sacred geometry of the freemasons

interestingly wikipedia says it is 1:1.6 or 1 to phi

I knew it was those damn masons. They're into everything.

Actually 1:1·618... (reoccuring, i.e. infinite)

E.g.
1.6180339887 4989484820 4586834365 6381177203 0917980576
2862135448 6227052604 6281890244 9707207204 1893911374
8475408807 5386891752 1266338622 2353693179 3180060766
7263544333 8908659593 9582905638 3226613199 2829026788
0675208766 8925017116 9620703222 1043216269 5486262963
1361443814 9758701220 3408058879 5445474924 6185695364
8644492410 4432077134 4947049565 8467885098 7433944221
2544877066 4780915884 6074998871 2400765217 0575179788
3416625624 9407589069 7040002812 1042762177 1117778053
1531714101 1704666599 1466979873 1761356006 7087480710
1317952368 9427521948 4353056783 0022878569 9782977834
7845878228 9110976250 0302696156 1700250464 3382437764
8610283831 2683303724 2926752631 1653392473 1671112115
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7159934323 5973494985 0904094762 1322298101 7261070596
1164562990 9816290555 2085247903 5240602017 2799747175
3427775927 7862561943 2082750513 1218156285 5122248093
9471234145 1702237358 0577278616 0086883829 5230459264
7878017889 9219902707 7690389532 1968198615 1437803149
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Just watched that last week. Pure quality!

Very cool discovery ... that's really interesting.