Reply With Quoteimo fastest way is choosing someone's tank as a model and making it's copy with combining your own ideas..
regards V31
Often enough i read in the threads about certain aqua-scaping principles such as keeping to a 1.6something ratio, the 'flow' of objects such as drift wood and rocks, etc which i dont really get.
Other concepts such as izgami(or something), zen, wild look...are lost on me...
Looking for a quick(er) solution, i hope the experts in the forum or at least those who are trying out/ experimenting or have mastered a particular technic or principles to come out and give us some pointers....
So far i note that we have to understand our plants, so as to know their placement and predict how they will 'grow out'... I also note the necessity to create a focal point, be it a valley, or a centrepiece rock/driftwood...
But the driftwood available at lfhs have been rather dissappointing, or is it up to me to cut/stack/combine them with java ferns, annubias and mosses to give it life?
My new 4 footer is comming, so please imbue this thread with all your knowledge
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imo fastest way is choosing someone's tank as a model and making it's copy with combining your own ideas..
regards V31
Calm shift at http://www.natureaquarist.com
Figure out a general direction you want people to look from: top to bottom, left to right, right to left, or from a focal point then spread out in all directions.
Use the hardscape to do this. I agress the hardscape available at regular LFSes cannot do the job. You have to go to farms to pick and choose slowly for nice ones I think.
But whats this ratio thing 1.6 or somethign
It's the Golden Ratio.
Quote from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio:
Since the sixteenth century, shapes proportioned according to the golden ratio have been considered aesthetically pleasing in Western cultures; the golden ratio is still frequently used in art and design. The golden ratio has attracted a large following for its supposed aesthetic, psychological, historical, mystical, natural, and metaphysical properties, in addition to its mathematical properties.
Some references:
http://www.aquaticplantcentral.com/f...den-ratio.html
http://freshaquarium.about.com/libra.../aa122203a.htm
Excellent... will go read up about it... wonder how i can do a Golden ratio scape
Just keep your focal point off-center. That's about it really...
Actually no, thats not really it, do some reading and educate yourself. Look up 'Golden ratio', and 'Fibonacci' on Google. You might just learn something interestingOriginally Posted by dts_spawn
Here's something to get you going:
http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal...nacci/fib.html
Yup, you're right. But for a tank, you don't really need to know so much maths right?
Perhaps, but just cause you want to apply the technique to your tank does not make the dynamics of it any easier, if you understand it then you can properly apply it to your tank aswell as other areas of your life.....good Feng shui
Sorry for being pedantic but I really find it interesting and its not just a matter of 'placing it off center'. Everything from the spaces between your joints to the spirals on a snail shell or even the outcome of how many babies a breeding pair of rabbits will produce are all revolved around the 'Golden ratio', 1.613.
Hi happy camper,
yup, the golden ratio is really amazing...sometimes, is it really a coincidence or what?...hahaha
thanks
yours sincerely,
Storm
Who knows, perhaps it's all just mathematical dogma?
Saw discovery the other time. A topic on beauty. They surveyed known beautiful people's face (ie. models, actors). Their face match nearly perfectly to the golden ratio derived face. It was really amazing.
Just my 2 cents.
BTW. Here is a link that discusses about golden ration in terms of aquascaping.
http://www.my-mac.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=119
Hope it helps.
Cool, here's another link relating to aqua scaping:
http://www.aquaticplantcentral.com/f...den-ratio.html
Kind regards
Cameron
I should be working not posting
Applies to anything that's pleasing to the eye which is inherent in nature. Won't be wrong to study it. Makes decisive placement of a piece of driftwood or rock easier.
You can if you dare to fail - Stan Chung
I personally feel that see more amano scapes, or other famous scapes do help. Subconsciously, you will slowly get the feel.
Never create what you can't control
If you guys are really interested, here is a book about the Golden Ratio. No reference is made to aquascaping though.
The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number by Mario Livio.
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