For centuries, symmetry has remained a subject that has fascinated philosophers, astronomers, mathematicians, artists, architects, physicists and of course photographers.
No one is sure why it is present in so many things in nature, or what is the mathematics behind it.
It is said that the most beautiful face is a face that is entirely symmetrical about the vertical line.
Here is an example of symmetry in butterfly.
Photograph taken in Hong Kong.
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Beautiful lufituaeB
Thanks for sharing the name!
It’s not true though. If you reflect one side of your face in a mirror (or digitally), it looks very strange indeed. For humans st least, perfect symmetry is not natural! That is a fantastic butterfly though, really stunning!
You are quite right. Facial averageness and symmetry are the main factor to decide attractiveness, symmetry alone won’t do.
Stunning
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Stunning! xxx
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Excellent and lovely capture
Thank you!
This is most likely the most unique butterflies that I have seen. Thank you for sharing
Yes, they can only be found in the tropical / sub-tropical areas!
Amazing capture for sure š
Thank you, good health to your baby too!
Currently I have a three year old preschool student that is absolutely fascinated by line of symmetry. She has been painting and drawing variations for two weeks now!
Did she draw any butterflies? Maybe they are still too complicated.
She has not drawn any yet, but she loves pictures of butterflies.
That’s good!
Beautiful!
Thank you!
You are welcome!
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Except for the background, it looks as if you could have made a mirror image of one half of the photo and fused it together. Quite remarkable.
Exactly, if without the background, reader may think I am stitching two equal but handed halves together!
A very good picture. And a very good question. One could say: “The DNA helix is symmetrical”. Probably has to do with chemistry. I will ask my wife. My personal take? Symmetry is beauty. A balance of proportions. Think of an “asymmetrical” Bridge? Probably would be ugly… š
I have seen some aysmmetrial bridge, for instance, a cable stayed bridge with only one inclined mast near one end for the cables. It looks quite different, not that bad. For bridges, it seems to have their own aesthetics criterion too, for instance, don’t have an even number of bridge spans, say, 3 spans instead of 2 or 4 etc.
Odd numbers are fine. They have a symmetry of their own.
Quite true!