Research on the Composition Mechanism of the Golden Ratio: Aesthetic Processing of Visual Balance

Does the golden ratio in composition bring about visual balance and aesthetic pleasure? What are its underlying mechanisms? This study explores composition and aesthetic preferences, suggesting that visual balance is dynamic and subjective in nature. The physiological structure of human vision, particularly the dominance of one eye, leads to visual field imbalance during aesthetic appreciation. As a result, the subjective center of balance in an image often aligns with the golden ratio point. The mechanism of aesthetic processing in visual perception contributes to the construction of subjective visual balance, and the visual stimulus generated by golden ratio composition may influence this aesthetic processing. Therefore, the aesthetic processing of visual balance can help explain the mechanism underlying the golden ratio in composition.