The Golden Rectangle and The Colossus of Rhodes
Successive Golden Rectangles dividing a Golden Rectangle into squares
(Colossus of Rhodes, hand-colored engraving by Martin Heemskerck, 1498-1574).
Rhodes' Colossus tall, Helios, god of the sun, Ancient wonder's might.
A golden rectangle
is a rectangle whose side lengths are in the golden ratio, one-to-phi, that is, approximately 1:1.618.
A distinctive feature of this shape is that when a square section is removed, the remainder is another golden rectangle, that is, with the same proportions as the first. Square removal can be repeated infinitely, which leads to an approximation of the golden
or Fibonacci spiral.
Fibonacci numbers
(0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34...) are a sequence of numbers named after Leonardo of Pisa, known as Fibonacci.
The first number of the sequence is 0, the second number is 1, and each subsequent number is equal to
the sum of the previous two numbers of the sequence itself.
The Colossus of Rhodes was a colossus of
the Greek god Helios, erected on the Greek island of
Rhodes by Chares of Lindos between 292 and 280 BC. It is
considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient
World. Before its destruction, the Colossus of Rhodes
stood over 30 meters (107 ft) high, making it one of the
tallest statues of the ancient world.
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