Beauty Definition and 56 Threads

Can beauty be measured? in any way shape or form? even if its subjective to one person's ideas... can it still be measured? Or is beauty an abstract sort of thing that one cannot put a value on?

... please have patience with me here! i know this question has probably been asked a dozen times before to you guys but i find it so amazingly intersting what other people think about this. i myself have not yet made up my mind completely. to begin, i do not in any way, shape, or form...

maybe we can get a list of math art sites. here's mine: takes a while to load. about 750kb. http://www.alephnulldimension.net/phoenix/mathart/.

Sleeping Beauty ! Hello! Here is a sketch of a baby by me :) I just uploaded it and thought to share with you :) http://forums.metrobangla.com/files/slpbty.jpg

Apparently it has been decided that the new unit for beauty will be the milliHelen. One milliHelen is said to be the beauty required to launch one ship. Tee Hee

From your visions of mathematical and physical wonders, what real or imagined phenomenon inspires the most awe? (For me? The myriad and kaleidoscopic nascent galaxies of the early universe, shown in the Hubble Deep Field. Also, a model that depicts the macrocosmos also existing within us as...