Phi Calculator Helps Calculate the Golden Ratio For Your Designs. Eric Ravenscraft April 4, 2016 The golden (or divine) ratio is a staple of good photography and design. When you’re ...

For example, Zeising claimed that if you calculate the distance between your bellybutton and your toes, and then divide that by your total height, you get the Golden ratio, or 1.6.

It’s bullshit. The golden ratio’s aesthetic bona fides are an urban legend, a myth, a design unicorn. Many designers don’t use it, and if they do, they vastly discount its importance.

To explain the golden ratio we asked our friend Joe from It's Okay To Be Smart to fill us in. - The golden ratio is the irrational number Phi and like Pi, it doesn't end. So instead of saying 1. ...

For example, here it is to 25 decimal places — 1.6180339887498948482045868… — but you could calculate it out to a million decimal places and it would still only be a very, very, very, VERY ...