Sunday, 1 January 2012

Fibonacci and Nature



Fibonacci and the Golden Circle claimed that flowers and their petals follow this method of the spiraling effect.

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This flower is known as the Cornflower.

You can see that the orange “petals” seem to form spirals curving both to the left and to the right. At the edge of the picture, if you count those spiralling to the right as you go outwards, there are 55 spirals. Towards the centre and you will be able to count 34 spirals. The pair of numbers (counting spirals in curing left and curving right) are neighbours in the Fibonacci series.

The ‘Golden Cirlce’ remind me of the flower image of Karl Blossfeldts work and has helped me to understand the mathematics involved in nature

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