what's up reefers queen of reef here back again and I gotta talk to you about
something pretty important
I'm not even gonna lie I'm not gonna lie everybody has been
holding out
everybody has been holding out about
what they think about when they create you know visually appealing you know
really really hot aquascapes
it turns out there's a secret sauce there's a
there's a secret sauce about how people make you know visually appealing sexy
aquascapes
and you don't need an artistic eye or takashi amano talent if
you can glue rock A to rock B you can create a sexy aquascape too okay
you know why
the secret sauce is formulaic
I mean really it's actually
a mathematical formula
so at the root of visually appealing is the basic rule of thirds
the rule of thirds is a technique that makes art photography whatever have you
in this case reef tanks look way more interesting to the eye
what okay how does this apply to your scape
you just take your tank
take your tank and divide it up like a tic-tac-toe board of three by three
of nine equal blocks
the goal here is to place the centerpiece of your rock structure on
one of the four intersecting points
not in the center
but offset on the side
either to the left
or to the right
don't Center your main rock structure
off centering that main structure makes your tank looks way more dynamic and
more interesting to the eye
and I know what you're thinking right now
ayoh Stephanie this isn't the secret sauce to a sexy scape we know the rule of thirds already
that's old news
you know that's old news
but wait I'm
going to add another element to it y'all
the secret sauce to a sexy scape
is the Fibonacci sequence and the golden spiral of sexiness
you know the Leonardo DaVinci
yada yada
geometry for visual perfection what have you
okay so basically
the Fibonacci sequence is found everywhere in nature
and is all around us
it's a never-ending series of numbers where you just add
the first two numbers to create a third number and then just keep adding the two
before and so on and so forth until infinity
so it plays out to be like 1 1
2 3 5 8 and so on so forth
kind of like you know when you when you when you
breed bougie designer clownfish you know
you have one clownfish
you have one bougie clownfish
and then you add you know a male bougie clownfish and then
they end up making another bougie clownfish and then there ends up being
five bougie clown you know what it's just it's this weird number code that
that translates to beauty okay bear with me bear with me
so the Fib onacci sequence drawn out is the Golden Spiral sexiness that I keep
telling you guys about
by drawing out the first numbers of the Fibonacci
sequence you know one by one one by one two by two three by three five by five
and eight by eight creating an arc from each corner of the square to the other
acknowledge the spiral
because this spiral
this spiral right here is exactly how
you're going to make the dream aquascape
the goal here is to make your rock scape
align roughly with the fibonacci spiral okay
just have to make sure if the rock
somewhat aligns with that curve for it to be really hot
we're not recreating
Michelangelo's sculptures here you know
Michelangelo didn't even reef so
don't worry about making it perfect because it's not going to ruin its
overall effect
the spiral can be flipped vertically
the spiral can be flipped horizontally
you could even you know add two spirals if you really want to get
crazy with it you know don't go overboard but if you want to add two can
you can add two
pretty sure that you guys definitely get the point by now so
let's take a look at some real life examples shall we
see guys I wasn't making this stuff up the Golden Spiral of sexiness is a
really good tool for when you're thinking about how to design your aquasquape
it's a really great starting point for when you start to visualize how your scape
is going to be structured and what kind of visual effect you want to give off
i want to note how the rock never exactly followed the sexy spiral perfectly
the sexy spiral is essentially just a guideline for the focal points of your
tanks so basically it never has to be perfect
as long as when you first look at your aquascape your eyes are drawn to the
sexy spiral or spirals as the main key features in your aquascape
huge shout out to my favorite all-time saltwater aquascaper water life for letting me
use their pictures in this video to explain the sexy spiral
you guys should definitely check out their Instagram when you have the chance because it's
just this is just raw aquascape talent right here
you guys are so sweet
it makes me so happy to hear that you guys love my tank so much
except Mario ouch
ain't that the truth I don't think there's anything cat loves more than a
sexy acro shipment