As some of you may already know most of the designs in nature, architecture, art etc are based on the golden mean. So if you wanted a convenient way of storing you own personal "golden mean" you would create a 34" long rectangle and then partition off 21" of the rectangle in a different color. This gives you your own personal golden mean which you can save and reuse for many of your projects. Just make sure you scale it properly (Here is one done for you)

FASCINATING!
I know in photography, that good compositions are made by dividing the frame roughly into thirds, whether vertically or horizontally. And I think I've even heard the same about canvassed, or any artistic media, I guess. But this is different!

I've always liked that spiral image, which I just learned is called a Fibonacci Spiral, thanks to the Wikipedia which one can find by following the "golden mean" text link that capnhud provided. You know what I mean, that spiral that fits inside of nested squares and rectangles, that looks kind of like a snail shell? A few years ago, I once spent hours sketching, measuring and crunching numbers, trying to figure out the ratios necessary to accurately recreate the spiral. Because it's clear to me, just looking at it, that there's something special about its geometry (and that I thought I could use on a particular art project I was working on). Yeah, I never did figure it out, and ended up hand sketching a spiral. But now that I've read about it in the Wiki, I realize that I never had a chance of figuring out the ratios....well, not now anyway. Maybe in college, where I did well in calculus and physics. But college was....a long time ago (loooonnng time ).

So anyway, I will definitely be paying more attention to this golden mean, and looking for opportunities to use it in my own image creations, as I learn how to use Inkscape, and more about computer graphics in general. Capnhud, I wonder if you, or anyone, might have some images you've created, which incorporate the golden mean (whether intentionally or serendipitously) that you might want to post and share? The Wiki did reference a few famous paintings, but I think it would be interesting to examine more modern uses....maybe even to have brief discussions. Oooo, or what about making the golden mean a theme of some future image competition??

Well, just a couple of thoughts, I guess.
Thanks for this helpful and inspiring tip
All best.

Yes I find myself now examining images with the golden mean perspective it makes you more aware if someone just slapped something together or if they took the time to really examine the space they were try to design the project for.

I have some things in the works that when I am finish I will gladly post. Its just that using inkscape requires a little more ingenuity to accomplish a particular result. But I am slowly but surely getting there.