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Interactive Multimedia Design
The Golden Mean
Time-based Flash Animation
This is a short, timeline-based animation in Flash, to illustrate the principle of the Golden Mean. The idea is to divide a line into two segments, so that the shorter segment relates to the longer segment in the same proportion that the longer segment relates to the whole line. Confused? Watch the animation.
Of course, the shortcut is to divide by 1.618 ...