Thee I Trust began as a game to combine the Golden Ratio and Fibonacci Sequence in a series of concentric circles to create the illusion of movement. I continued to multiply the discs in pursuit of this goal. It failed, but rather than toss away all that work, I used them as construction pieces to build a cone. After considerable experimentation, I came up with the cone in Thee I Trust.
The concentric circles are purple and green. The change in the diameters of the purple circles increases in proportion to the Golden Ratio for halfway then decreases again. The same applies to the green circles, using the Fibonacci Sequence.
The compounding of discs occurs with the Golden Ratio rounded off to whole numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 11, 18.
Golden Fibonacci Disc, 2018, Digital line drawing.
The discs sit at even intervals along a straight base with the Golden Ratio curve guiding their sizing. The number of each disc used follows the Fibonacci Sequence: 1 x 18 discs, 1 x 11 discs, 2 x 7 discs, 3 x 4 discs, 5 x 3 discs, 8 x 2 discs, and 13 x 1 disc.
In the final collation, the cone is replicated. The discs of one cone graduate from the smallest to the largest, the other in reverse. They are positioned with one cone standing and the other resting on it. Hence, Thee I Trust is created.
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