If I squint, press on my eye ball, and turn my head I think I can get a rectangle out of a giraffe.

if you want to get technical, the golden rectangle (golden spiral, golden proportions, etc) is seen everywhere in nature. while you won't find the geometric shape in perfect form to the naked eye in nature, nature and the world we live in is a jumble of math and equations. my disdain for doing math is lessened only by the knowledge that it is in every aspect of our existence.

Yes, but golden mean is a different matter. What i ment is the visual rectangle, the very familliar geometric shape with 4 right angles and pairs of parralel lines. It is so abundant in the things we build, all of our environment is made of them... Buildings, all books, all websites, all visual art, typography, design, furniture, machinery, equipement, consumer goods, sometimes even clothing... And yet, it is completely absent in nature - you could go for years without seeing one.

Just goes to show how dependant the human brain is on simplicity. While nature is sheer complexity, it goes with what works, not what is easy to comprehend.

I'm not sure the world is made of equations... Math is just our language, a way we can interpret the laws that are sometimes so alien to our psyche, we can't even start to imagine it (like quantum physics... it's a circus. Same particle being in two places at the same time? And try to imagine what's this state called "quantum entanglement" is... oh, and most of our cosmological ideas are quite bananas, string theory being an "easily comprehendable" one), i'm not saying math is not important, i just mean the world would continue to exist even if nobody knew what the laws are, even if there was absolutely no life in the universe. We don't see reality, we model it. ()

(So yes, that was a bunch of writing for the sake of writing. I just woke up.)

Gah.. the link there is this: http://seedmagazine.com/designseries/henry-markram.html