spiral - Revision history

1234231587678: horrible orthography

2026-03-12T03:30:31Z

horrible orthography

82.132.238.245: /* Explanation / Just a bit better. It might be worth saying that division by the golden ratio is* pleasantly aesthetic, just that it's easy to find/contrive such ratios/spirals in pretty much any random layout. If you try hard enough/ignore exceptions!

2026-03-05T16:43:27Z

‎Explanation: Just a bit better. It might be worth saying that division by the golden ratio *is* pleasantly aesthetic, just that it's easy to find/contrive such ratios/spirals in pretty much any random layout. If you try hard enough/ignore exceptions!

72.221.15.54: /* Explanation */

2026-03-05T15:18:51Z

‎Explanation

2.98.65.8: /* Transcript */ Deserved a more expanded description, as far as I felt able to give it. (Who the young man is (presumed with the wedding-gift sewing machine rescued from the van that didn't quite finish its deliveries), I have no idea! :P )

2025-11-16T01:12:23Z

‎Transcript: Deserved a more expanded description, as far as I felt able to give it. (Who the young man is (presumed with the wedding-gift sewing machine rescued from the van that didn't quite finish its deliveries), I have no idea! :P )

Birdlover32767 at 14:46, 12 November 2025

2025-11-12T14:46:07Z

Lettherebedarklight: /* Explanation */ +

2025-11-05T15:52:46Z

‎Explanation: +

42.book.addict: added Category:Extra pages using HotCat

2025-11-05T03:04:57Z

added Category:Extra pages using HotCat

2001:4450:813D:C800:B528:D7D:B463:44EF: /* Explanation */

2025-10-21T11:01:44Z

‎Explanation

2001:4450:813D:C800:B528:D7D:B463:44EF: /* Explanation */ non-vandelism

2025-10-21T11:00:25Z

‎Explanation: non-vandelism

2001:4450:813D:C800:B528:D7D:B463:44EF: non-vandelism

2025-10-21T10:59:50Z

non-vandelism

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 :[An old 1970s 'Batman'-themed water-pistol, shaped as Batman himself in a frankly disturbing pose. The spiral originates from the base of the 'crotch'-trigger, and the curve eventually closely matches the profile around the back of Batman, from the the thighs, over his cape-clad back and to his neck, the constructing grid being orthagonal to the image and the whole segmented spiral overlay sits neatly within the image edges.]
-:[A besuited and smiling young man, perhaps dressed for a wedding reception, is holding a small portable sewing machine and standing in front of a scene in which three policemen stand in attendence of an apparent accident. A standard UPS delivery van has apparently reversed off the road and down an embankment, which it is now angled up. The spiral starts on one of the van's headlights and sort of aligns with the top bottom and one side of the inclined van's front, as well as across the face of the young man. The grid is aligned to the highly rotated truck front, closely matching its upper and lower edges and the the central pillar between the two-part front windows.]
+:[A besuited and smiling young man, perhaps dressed for a wedding reception, is holding a small portable sewing machine and standing in front of a scene in which three policemen stand in attendance of an apparent accident. A standard UPS delivery van has apparently reversed off the road and down an embankment, which it is now angled up. The spiral starts on one of the van's headlights and sort of aligns with the top bottom and one side of the inclined van's front, as well as across the face of the young man. The grid is aligned to the highly rotated truck front, closely matching its upper and lower edges and the the central pillar between the two-part front windows.]
 :[A very limber cat, mostly white but patterned with light-gingerish splodges, is sprawled in a very relaxed-looking but typically feline spine-twisting pose, apparently on a leather sofa. The back of its head manages almost to rest its own groin, due to its apparently effortless contortions. Starting almost at the point of one of its eyes, the curve really only significantly matches the cat's back/side from its rear-legs/rump to its midriff, the constructive grid at a seemingly arbitrary angle.]
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 :[A stock photo of a young Bill Gates casually on top of an office desk, smiling, leaning on a monochrome (white-on-blue) computer monitor displaying something with the Microsoft Logo (1982-1987). Various other computers and peripherals are on another desk in the background, in front of a window showing a likely third/fourth-storey view onto a possibly snow-dusted campus-like location with a pine forest stand visible in the near distance. Spiralling from the eye of Bill Gates, the curve toys with following some of his hair, but seems to mostly have been allowed to eventually align to the lower hem of the cream sweater he is wearing. The spiral's frame may have been rotated to intersect various edges of computer monitors, but is otherwise angled fairly arbitrary and not particularly precisely with the subjects head.]
-:[Vladimir Putin, posed barechested and holding a fishing rod in a forest/river setting, perhaps one of his (im)famous and (maybe) unintentionally homoeretic calender shoots from the mid 2010s. The origin of the spiral is one of his nipples, with a few incidental contacts with his body (e.g. his man-cleavage and angled forearm), but the main congruence seeminly being the underside of the bush-hat he's wearing. The frmework is orthagonal, with particular additional relationship to the underyling image.]
+:[Vladimir Putin, posed barechested and holding a fishing rod in a forest/river setting, perhaps one of his (in)famous and (maybe) unintentionally homoerotic calendar shoots from the 2010s. The spiral starts on one of his nipples, with a few incidental contacts with his body (e.g. his man-cleavage and angled forearm), but the main congruence seeminly being the underside of the bush-hat he's wearing. The framework is orthogonal, with particular additional relationship to the underlying image.]
 :[A bright-eyed Joe Biden, toothily smiling into the camera in a likely publicity shot from his time as Vice-President. There are two counterrotating spirals, both originating from the same spot near the corner of one of his eyes, one of which tries to match the shape of his lower lip, the other seems to be keyed to the top of his thin but tidy grey-white head of hair. The framing scaffoldings are orthagonal but effectively perpendicular to each other, in an almost perfect 45° reflective relationship.]

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 This page is linked from [[1488: Flowcharts]].
-This appears to be a selection of images with the {{w|golden ratio}} spiral superimposed to display hidden meaning in their appearance. These spirals originate from a specialised point of the subjects and continue along some meaningful lines of the subject. The humour here is that he is putting the golden ratio on these images randomly, to show how ridiculous it looks when artists superimpose the golden ratio on their art.
+This appears to be a selection of images with the {{w|golden ratio}} spiral superimposed to display hidden meaning in their appearance. These spirals originate from a specialised point of the subjects and continue along some meaningful lines of the subject. The humour here is that he is putting the golden ratio on these seemingly random images, to show how ridiculous it is, in many cases, when artists or others superimpose a golden spiral on some specific picture to try to prove something 'significant' about the composition.
 ==Transcript==

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 This page is linked from [[1488: Flowcharts]].
-This appears to be a selection of images with the {{w|golden ratio}} spiral superimposed to display hidden meaning in their appearance. These spirals originate from a specialised point of the subjects and continue along some meaningful lines of the subject. The humour here could be that the golden ratio is normally found in famously aesthetically pleasing objects, whereas the images Randall has provided do not quite fulfil that brief.
+This appears to be a selection of images with the {{w|golden ratio}} spiral superimposed to display hidden meaning in their appearance. These spirals originate from a specialised point of the subjects and continue along some meaningful lines of the subject. The humour here is that he is putting the golden ratio on these images randomly, to show how ridiculous it looks when artists superimpose the golden ratio on their art.
 ==Transcript==

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 ==Transcript==
-:[9 images, each showcasing a golden spiral aligning with some element of the image included in: person wearing los angeles cap, wall object, slope truck, cat sleeping, old computers, belly button, user avatar, screenshot of google maps, a cat wearing a toy horse head on a wooden floor]
+:[Nine eclectically unrelated images are the only contents of this entire web-page, each overlaid with at least one golden spiral and the frame of squares that define its shape. All but one image are photos, and a number of them show subjects that might be considered quirky, or at least 'niche', even before the overlay is applied.]
 {{comic discussion}}
 [[Category:Extra pages]]

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 ==Transcript==
-:[9 images, each showcasing a golden spiral aligning with some element of the image included in: person wearing los angeles cap, wall object, slope truck, cat sleeping, old computers, belly button, user avatar, screenshot of google maps, a toy horse on a wooden floor]
+:[9 images, each showcasing a golden spiral aligning with some element of the image included in: person wearing los angeles cap, wall object, slope truck, cat sleeping, old computers, belly button, user avatar, screenshot of google maps, a cat wearing a toy horse head on a wooden floor]
 {{comic discussion}}
 [[Category:Extra pages]]

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 ==Explanation==
 {{misc page}}
 This appears to be a selection of images with the {{w|golden ratio}} spiral superimposed to display hidden meaning in their appearance. These spirals originate from a specialised point of the subjects and continue along some meaningful lines of the subject. The humour here could be that the golden ratio is normally found in famously aesthetically pleasing objects, whereas the images Randall has provided do not quite fulfil that brief.

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 [[File:spiral9.jpg]]
 | lappend   = spiral
-| extra     = yes
+| extra     = no
 | imagesize =
 }}
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 :[9 images, each showcasing a golden spiral aligning with some element of the image included in: person wearing los angeles cap, wall object, slope truck, cat sleeping, old computers, belly button, user avatar, screenshot of google maps, a toy horse on a wooden floor]
 {{comic discussion}}

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 {{comic
 | title     = spiral
-| image     =
+[[File:spiral1.jpg]]
 | lappend   = spiral
 | extra     = yes