PAOK PATTERN CONTEST ENTRY

This was my entry for Paoks Pattern Contest.

It failed.:P

"THE GOLDEN RATIO"

The Golden Ratio is what we call an

irrational number: it has an infinite

number of decimal places and it never

repeats itself. Generally, we round the

Golden Ratio to 1.618.

It has also been used aesthetically as a unit

of measurement in greek architecture and

perceived as a proportion which exemplifies

beauty, perfection, and balance through

symmetry.

Patterns or tilings reflect the basic

mathemathical properties of the golden

ratio as tesselations ( irregular shapes or

combinations of shapes that interlock

completely to cover a surface or plane.)

This design comes from this principle

and that the idea that mathemathics and

art both converge in a manner that is

naturally pleasing, based on a natural order

or law as described by the golden ratio.

this certain balance also reflects the belief

of yin and yang, or the idea of equity/balance

of things, both dark (as the grey areas) and

light elements (as the gold/orange areas); of

which the most basic notions are the ff.:

-good and evil

-life and death

-love and war

these topics are identified as contrasts.

these contrasts are emphasized through the

use of different colors and elements which

all come together in such harmony to

achieve perfect balance, both as an aesthetic

and as an ideological IDEA.