I was cropping some photographs, and it occurred to me that they might look better if instead of using the 7x5 standard of a regular photograph, I used something a bit wider, so I tried an 8x5 ratio instead. And it looked better. Then for some reason the thought occurred to me to use the golden rectangle to determine the size. So I looked that up, and found this:
But looking at it, I was like "Hey wait... That's the same ratio as my image here that I've cropped already. And isn't 800x500 the native resolution I used in my space beetles game? So doesn't that mean..."
So I scaled the image up to 1920 pixels wide, and lo and behold it was the same size as my screen.
So the 16:10 displays now in use on PC's follow the golden rectangle, or pretty damn close to it. :-)
But looking at it, I was like "Hey wait... That's the same ratio as my image here that I've cropped already. And isn't 800x500 the native resolution I used in my space beetles game? So doesn't that mean..."
So I scaled the image up to 1920 pixels wide, and lo and behold it was the same size as my screen.
So the 16:10 displays now in use on PC's follow the golden rectangle, or pretty damn close to it. :-)