The Fibonacci Sequence, especially in regards to art

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Please…for the love of my sanity. I’ve researched this topic relatively extensively and I just feel more and more stupid. I understand the rule of thirds. I understand the compounding numbers or whatever. However, a majority of the time I see the sequence imposed onto an image, all I can think is “okay, but…how? There’s nothing really significant about where that’s placed.”

Example: (poor example because I can kind of see how this makes some sense, but still)

https://imgs.classicfm.com/images/25767?crop=16_9&width=660&relax=1&signature=zaV1b3MFv0hIC0a41oGLG3CvQ7I=

Is it really just that it’s more busy in the “center” and it gets exponentially less busy? Am I overthinking it? Am I an idiot? What’s with the spiral? Is it just demonstrating the direction of the exponentiating, or does it have to do with the spacing of the colors or shapes on the image?

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If you take a picture with a lot of complexity to it, you could overlay a Fibonacci spiral and it would coincide somewhere with elements of the picture. Its just coincidence and means nothing.

Take the same picture and overlay, say, a pentagram, or hell just a penguin instead and you’ll get the same.

The whole Fibonacci meme is just bs.

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