Sentence examples for pleasing proportion from inspiring English sources

This, according to Pythagoras, is the most beautiful and pleasing proportion.

The Greeks also had observed that the golden ratio provided the most aesthetically pleasing proportion of sides of a rectangle, a notion that was enhanced during the Renaissance by, for example, work of the Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci and the publication of De divina proportione (1509; Divine Proportion) by the Italian mathematician Luca Pacioli, and illustrated by Leonardo (see the ).

Some are cube shaped like Donald Judd's furniture, with right angles, pleasing proportions and hard seats.

Thus, a rectangle the sides of which are in the approximate ratio of 3 : 5 (Φ−1 = 0.618...), or 8 : 5 (Φ = 1.618...), is presumed to have the most pleasing proportions, aesthetically speaking.

Early 18th-century English work combined functional simplicity with grace of form, while the work of Dutch and German goldsmiths is in a similar style but of less pleasing proportions.

The Van de Graaf canon is a historical reconstruction of a method that may have been used in book design to divide a page in pleasing proportions.

Facial balance can be corrected or enhanced through augmentation of the zygomatic prominence, maxilla, mandible, nose, and supraorbital ridges [ 40] to achieve aesthetically pleasing proportions.

"I'd been longing my whole life for some pleasing, classical proportions," she said — not easy to come by in southern Idaho's ski country, where McMansions, many in a fake-log-cabin style, had proliferated.

In addition, the much-maligned "chin" at the bottom will shrink significantly from Jay Leno sizes to more pleasing Bruce Campebll proportions.

Unless the negative emotion becomes predominant, the overall effect of a well-written tragedy will be an audience "pleased in proportion as they are afflicted" (OT 258).

Symmetry is best understood in design as pleasing and balanced proportions.