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Proportion
The relation of the part to the whole. In art, it may refer to the search for the lengths of parts of the human body to the size of the whole person. The search for such rules, in written form, go back to vitruvius. The golden section or golden ratio is a proportion in which a whole line is unevenly divided, and the smaller part is to the larger, in the same ration as the larger part is to the whole.
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