i love the square aspect ratio. i want to make a list of things which have always been only square ... the only thing i could think of was record covers (and now cd covers)
It actually took me long to think of stuff which have always been only square. I can however think of many things which have always been circular. Anyway, I think books, whiteboards, government postcards, CRT's, IC's, newspapers they have all been parallelograms (if not a perfect square)....
Obviously the reason is that if want to envelope a perfect circle (CD, record) you will need a sqaure of side 2r, where r is is the radius of the circle. Now to take this to its logical conclusion - lets think of all the circular objects and we will get the squares.
Among all the geometric forms, the circle will have the maximum surface area. My guess is that for economics of packaging etc, you don't want a circle, unless and until you need something to spin on its axis - and you can't do without one (like a CD, records, DVD). Show me a circle, and you will see a square. BTW: The hard disk of the comp is a square, me thinks - because there is a circle inside.
tuples, your math and logic is impeccable but it ain't no use... i still can't think of anything more :-)... and hard disks internal and external are far from perfect squares. keep trying... i am. there's nothing square in nature is there?
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:-) i like how it ends:
its all chemical... hmmph
It actually took me long to think of stuff which have always been only square. I can however think of many things which have always been circular. Anyway, I think books, whiteboards, government postcards, CRT's, IC's, newspapers they have all been parallelograms (if not a perfect square)....
parallelograms not counted.. only perfect squares. i still can't think of anything more than the record jackets.
Obviously the reason is that if want to envelope a perfect circle (CD, record) you will need a sqaure of side 2r, where r is is the radius of the circle. Now to take this to its logical conclusion - lets think of all the circular objects and we will get the squares.
Among all the geometric forms, the circle will have the maximum surface area. My guess is that for economics of packaging etc, you don't want a circle, unless and until you need something to spin on its axis - and you can't do without one (like a CD, records, DVD).
Show me a circle, and you will see a square. BTW: The hard disk of the comp is a square, me thinks - because there is a circle inside.
tuples, your math and logic is impeccable but it ain't no use... i still can't think of anything more :-)... and hard disks internal and external are far from perfect squares. keep trying... i am. there's nothing square in nature is there?
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