Week 12

Being a huge nerd, I decided to make my coffee table into a "golden rectangle" which is a math phenomenon named by the ancient Greeks. The ratio of width to length is 1:1.618 , this ratio is believed to be the most pleasing to the eye which will hopefully make my coffee table look really nice. I decided to make the length of the table 38 inches because it seemed like a reasonable length for a coffee table. Also if I make it bigger then the width would also be bigger and I didn't want it to be too wide. So dividing 38 by 1.618 a got the width to be 23.5 inches. Now, the is much too tall for a coffee table so instead of using that for a height I divided the width by 1.618 getting 14.5 inches for the height. Thus, making my coffee table a golden rectangle in every view except looking straight on in the front. I drew out the different sides so that you could get a better mental image of the dimensions. I'm having some malfunctions uploading the picture from my phone right now so i'll fix it next period when I'm in the small lecture hall