Plants Photos
Gallery 1
Plants Paintings
Gallery 1
The first is the original.
The rest are photoshop derivatives.
and a great segue to :
how we think they look
like they do
on Fibonacci Series,Golden Means, Phillotaxis, etc...
If Plants were Mathematicians
some photos
and Why we think they look like they do
i describe "phyllotaxis"Â as "arms" going in opposite directions out
from the center of the object in question
The number of arms are determined by numbers in the "Fibonacci Sequence"
These numbers are generated by adding the preceding 2 numbers together, so we get 1, 1+1=2, 2+1=3, 3+2=5, 3+5=8,...,55+89=144, 89+144=233, etc.
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i personally am fascinated by the mathematics of it
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i don't think micro-organisms, plants, whirlpools , and galaxies care much about math.
they are self-serving pragmatists seeking the most economic use of space and energy.
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i as an artist am willing to adopt this selfish philosophy,
and exploit the human instinct that attracts us to natural patterns.
With just a few marks of a paintbrush on a piece of wood,
and a bit of geometry,
i can create something inherently attractive, quite efficiently.
And some Paintings about it
Gallery 1
not to say these paintings are all that attractive, necessarily,
but there is a familiarity to there designs.
then the Paintings went 3-D
and ended up looking the way they did.
so then i did it really big on paper
2/3 Phyllotaxis
