I love growing sunflowers
The Day 5 theme of the #homesteadersofigchallenge is Vignette/Farm Art. Have you ever stopped to look at the pattern of seeds held within the center of these special flowers? Sunflowers are more than just beautiful food for bees and humans…they’re also a mathematical marvel. When I think of farm art I think of nature’s masterpieces and to me the sunflower is one of the finest.
The Day 5 theme of the #homesteadersofigchallenge is Vignette/Farm Art. Have you ever stopped to look at the pattern of seeds held within the center of these special flowers? Sunflowers are more than just beautiful food for bees and humans…they’re also a mathematical marvel. When I think of farm art I think of nature’s masterpieces and to me the sunflower is one of the finest.Did you know that the pattern of seeds within a sunflower follows the Fibonacci sequence, or 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144? If you remember back to math class, each number in the sequence is the sum of the previous two numbers. In sunflowers, the spirals you see in the center are generated from this sequence — there are two series of curves winding in opposite directions, starting at the center and stretching out to the petals, with each seed sitting at a certain angle from the neighboring seeds to create the spiral.
In order to optimize the filling of the seeds in the flower’s center, it is necessary to choose the most irrational number there is, that is to say, the one the least well approximated by a fraction. This number is exactly the golden mean or ratio. It is the only positive number whose square is one greater than itself. It is the only positive number whose reciprocal is one less than itself. Mother Nature is always keeping me on my toes and showing me her magic
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