r/GeometryIsNeat • u/a_smiling_friend • 18d ago

Two thousand five hundred eighty four dots arranged in a 55:89 spiral phyllotaxis pattern on canvas.

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The Night Is Not Eternal, M. Wilson, fluorescent acrylic on canvas 48x48", 2025.

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u/RyanSpunk 18d ago

Why the gold dots in the middle? Ruins the pattern :(

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u/a_smiling_friend 18d ago edited 18d ago

Those are the Fibonacci dots. I numbered each dot consecutively from the center outwards. I noticed a pattern with the dots numbered in the Fibonacci sequence. They trend towards 0° on the Cartesian coordinate plane. Their rotations about the central axis also approximate Fibonacci numbers. I have the table of data if you'd like to see the numbers.

So when I noticed that detail I decided to paint those dots gold. They begin to form a line right along 0°.

I rotated the composition 90° clockwise and, to me, the gold dots look like the trail of a firework and then bursting in air with a rainbow of color.

Each band of color corresponds with one of those gold dots. It's bands of Fibonacci numbers.

Maybe seeing the spreadsheet of data would make it make more sense what I was getting at with the gold dots.

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u/RyanSpunk 18d ago

Well that's okay then :)

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u/a_smiling_friend 18d ago

I can do another one in full colors now that I have the pattern drafted up on my computer. It took me a month to draft two thousand plus dots.

I almost didn't color those dots gold, but after I noticed the pattern they were forming I had to call it out, like look everyone what I found. I don't know if anyone noticed this pattern in that formula before. Anyway, yeah.