Pup wrote:I've been told that F1 prefers ellipses.
I'd assume that if you could find golden sections on the cars that it would be entirely coincidental, or perhaps evidence of the inherent beauty of nature.
I'm an architect and I tend to use golden section proportions when I can. But I'll let you in on a bit if a secret: most of it is bs. It's pretty easy to find or fudge golden section proportions onto any existing design, provided there's enough stuff to draw extension lines to.
Most classical architecture used direct geometric proportions, and most of what we define as classical orders never really existed in the architecture they claim to represent. That's to say, I'm a fan of the golden section, but it isn't the end-all of beauty.
Interesting, cool to hear that are aware of it when you are working.
It´s so apparent in nature, like sunflowers, pinapple, a Galaxy spiral, A regular wave, your own finger etc that maybe there´s more to it then just a measurement that just happens to be nearly everywhere you look in our universe.
I think what interests me is that Nature came up with this as a mathematically efficient solution rather then humans having invented it.
I think the main reason for the thread was if it was used aerodynamically like for example the shape of the sidepods/engine cover at it´s lowest base, as if you would take a crayon and draw the sidepods on the floor itself.
Edit: i would like to hear that Newey uses it alot but i have no idea
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