I am perfectionistic with designs, regardless of medium, so like a lot of people, I strive for even-ness in almost everything. Imagine designing a geometric painting or a web page. Divisions of odd numbers can have a beauty as well, even though they could be visibly off. One could combat that with even more even-ness (doubling the odd number or using it consistently throughout said design).
Technically, a lot of numbers have special importance, especially in geometry, and I wouldn't disagree that I find myself a slave to such perfection, but it wouldn't hurt to break notions like that. It might be irritating to look at, though, which is why I only use them for tweaks that will *fix* things for the human eye, even if mathematically speaking, they aren't perfect.
I sound vague but I'm referring to centering and alignments. We can misjudge what is and isn't in a straight line, especially since most of us don't change our angle of vision but instead of the angle of the thing we're looking at, but I digress. I mean that sometimes one may intuitively decide on what looks best if ruler measurements don't "look" right (even though they are). Now I'm just rambling.
I probably don't make sense so excuse the contradictions and illogical ideas that come with sleep deprivation in these comments. Anyway, I added a somewhat paraphrased version of what I said to num.txt.
I am perfectionistic with designs, regardless of medium, so like a lot of people, I strive for even-ness in almost everything. Imagine designing a geometric painting or a web page. Divisions of odd numbers can have a beauty as well, even though they could be visibly off. One could combat that with even more even-ness (doubling the odd number or using it consistently throughout said design).
Technically, a lot of numbers have special importance, especially in geometry, and I wouldn't disagree that I find myself a slave to such perfection, but it wouldn't hurt to break notions like that. It might be irritating to look at, though, which is why I only use them for tweaks that will *fix* things for the human eye, even if mathematically speaking, they aren't perfect.
I sound vague but I'm referring to centering and alignments. We can misjudge what is and isn't in a straight line, especially since most of us don't change our angle of vision but instead of the angle of the thing we're looking at, but I digress. I mean that sometimes one may intuitively decide on what looks best if ruler measurements don't "look" right (even though they are). Now I'm just rambling.
I probably don't make sense so excuse the contradictions and illogical ideas that come with sleep deprivation in these comments. Anyway, I added a somewhat paraphrased version of what I said to num.txt.