{"id":8618,"date":"2014-01-14T17:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=8618"},"modified":"2014-11-04T17:13:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T09:13:49","slug":"updated-math-interactive-math-of-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/updated-math-interactive-math-of-beauty-8618","title":{"rendered":"Updated Math of Beauty interactive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/numbers\/math-of-beauty.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2014\/01\/beauty.jpg\" alt=\"math of beauty\" width=\"200\" height=\"160\" style=\"width:200px;margin:0 0 5px 5px;float:right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This one's a bit of fun and not overly scientific. <\/p>\n<p>Why is it that we tend to regard certain people as beautiful regardless of their (or our) race or skin color? Some people feel  this is because we are attracted to people whose faces are symmetrical and who follow certain geometric shapes, especially those based on Fibonacci ratios.<\/p>\n<p>This page has always been one of the most popular on IntMath. I updated it so it also works on tablets and (large?) smart phones. <\/p>\n<p>Go to:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/numbers\/math-of-beauty.php\">Math of Beauty Interactive<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Skin deep? <\/strong>On the page, I have a disclaimer that says &quot;inner beauty is more important than external beauty.&quot;<\/p>\n<h2>For the geeks<\/h2>\n<p>This interactive used to be Flash-based, but of course Flash doesn't work on mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p>So it now uses jQuery (a javascript library) and jQuery-UI (stands for &quot;user interface&quot;) instead, with another small file so it works with touch gestures on tablets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/updated-math-interactive-math-of-beauty-8618#comments\" id=\"comms\">3 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/updated-math-interactive-math-of-beauty-8618\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2014\/01\/math-beauty.jpg\" alt=\"math of beauty\" width=\"128\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis interactive allows you to  place a mask over the photos of so-called beautiful people, and see how close their face is to the ideal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}