"Beauty" - before both poets and artists follow. We look for beauty not only in nature, art and philosophy, but also in our phones, clothes, furniture and ... in gaming. We often value beauty above reason, we try to surround it with it. Our world is defined by the essence of beauty, and yet we try to define it. As the philosopher George Santayana noted in his 1896 book The Sense of Beauty, there is "a very radical and widespread tendency within us to observe and appreciate beauty."
Philosophers like Santayana have been trying to understand beauty for centuries, but these days, after years of research, science comes to explain the essence of beauty. And while it can't yet tell us what beauty is, it can tell us where it is - or where it isn't. There is no shortage of theories about what makes an object aesthetic. Ideas about proportion, harmony, symmetry, order, complexity, and balance have been extensively studied by psychologists. These theories date back to 1876 - in the early days of experimental psychology - when the German psychologist Gustav Fechner provided evidence that people observe shapes and the golden ratio (the ratio is approximately 1.6:1). You can read about how our brain perceives and understands beauty and what the golden ratio is from numerous scientific studies. However, the conclusions are clear - we like nice things and we like to surround ourselves with them.
Keyboard with puddings.
We are gamers too and we also pay attention to aesthetics. That is why in MODECOM Volcano Gaming products we try not only to provide practical solutions (necessary to have fun), but also aesthetic ones. At the end of 2021, we introduced the MODECOM Volcano Lanparty Pudding Edition keyboard. Based on the well-known, good and valued MODECOM Volcano Lanparty keyboard, we embellished it with beautiful pudding overlays. Overlays up to 2/3 of their height are made of a milky, translucent material. Thanks to this design, the RGB LED backlight gains strength - the translucent material distributes the colors evenly over the keyboard. If we add to this the aluminum top of the keyboard housing, our sense of sight is filled with a beautiful color of bright, colorful light.
The keyboard looks especially beautiful after dark, when the RGB backlight on gently touches every corner of the desk. If we add reliable mechanical switches, a handy TKL size, dedicated software and anti-ghosting functions, we have a complete device. This is the beauty of gaming from MODECOM Volcano Gaming!