Thursday, July 24, 2014

Spiral Starfish - a logarithmic spiral pentaskelion (螺旋海星)

A pentaskelion with five logarithmic spirals r(θ) = a*exp(b*θ),
b ~ 0.30635 (same as that of the golden spiral).

b = 0.25

b = 0.5

b = golden ratio ~ 0.618


( Mathematical software used: gnuplot )

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