{"id":2929,"date":"2009-08-15T18:32:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T01:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2009\/08\/15\/sunflower-spirals\/"},"modified":"2009-08-15T19:23:16","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T02:23:16","slug":"sunflower-spirals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2009\/08\/15\/sunflower-spirals\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunflower Spirals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damsel acquired some beautiful sunflowers yesterday for the table centerpiece vase. She snapped this close-up of the center of one of them. When I downloaded the picture, I couldn&#8217;t help but notice the natural symmetry of the <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2008\/03\/13\/spiral-seashell\/\"><strong>Fibonacci spiral pattern<\/strong><\/a> that dominates the center of the flower. <\/p>\n<p>From the center of the flower, the spirals propagate in both right and left hand patterns outward. The spirals are not only aesthetically pleasing, but mathematically perfect*, in my book. Click on the flower for a closer look at the spirals.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/fibonacci-flower.jpg' title='fibonacci-flower.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/fibonacci-flower.thumbnail.jpg' alt='fibonacci-flower.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>* <strong style='font-size: 1.3em'<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk\/Personal\/R.Knott\/Fibonacci\/fibFormulae.html\">Definition of the Fibonacci series<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong style='font-size: 1.3em'>F(0) = 0, F(1) = 1, F(n+2) = F(n + 1) + F(n)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damsel acquired some beautiful sunflowers yesterday for the table centerpiece vase. She snapped this close-up of the center of one of them. When I downloaded the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,17,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-garden","category-photography","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}