http://www.metafilter.com/tags/ratio Posts tagged with 'ratio' at MetaFilter. Sat, 07 Apr 2007 08:21:30 -0800 Sat, 07 Apr 2007 08:21:30 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/60088/Golden%2DRatios <a href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/heliocentric-pantheon-interview-with.html">Did the roof of the Pantheon influence Copernicus?</a> Are the planets of the solar system aligned in accordance with a nearly-forgotten hypothesis known (unfairly) as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bode%27s_law">Bode's Law</a>? A fascinating wide-ranging discussion on BLDGBLOG with <a href="http://www.transom.org/guests/review/200504.review.murch.html">Walter Murch</a>, the visionary editor and sound designer for such films as <i>The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, The English Patient, THX1138,</i> and many others. [Murch's film work has previously been discussed <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/54890/Much-Murch">here</a> and <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/41699/2187-George-Lucas-Under-the-Influence">here</a>.] tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.60088 Sat, 07 Apr 2007 08:21:30 -0800 bode copernicus editing film geometry lucas math murch planets ratio rome solarsystem sound titius digaman http://www.metafilter.com/50020/Happy%2DPi%2DDay In case it <a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article350972.ece">has escaped your attention</a>, tomorrow is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_14">14 March</a> which, in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163651/">American notation</a>, is written <a href="http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0213924/">3/14</a>. If you have a <a href="http://www.pithemovie.com/gifpage.html">certain type of mind</a> you will <a href="http://www.exploratorium.edu/pi/pi98/">immediately</a> notice that <a href="http://www.facade.com/legacy/amiinpi/">these digits</a> bear a <a href="http://www.powells.com/fromtheauthor/martel.html">close approximation</a> to <a href="http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/pi/">one of</a> the most <a href="http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.pi.html">important numbers</a> in mathematics - <a href="http://www.joyofpi.com/pi.html">pi</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.50020 Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:47:51 -0800 einstein march14 pi ratio infini