"scam" <sca### [at] mailusydeduau> schreef in bericht 
news:web.46dbb00414f2c52b5ffa356d0@news.povray.org...
> "Thomas de Groot" <t.d### [at] internlDOTnet> wrote:
>> "scam" <sca### [at] mailusydeduau> schreef in bericht
>> news:web.46da675914f2c52be43b92be0@news.povray.org...
>> >
>>  Oh well, at least I now know the equation for a
>> > sunflower spiral!
>>
>>
>> Golden Angle, isn't it?
>>
>> Thomas
>
> Yes. What I meant is I now know the easy way to implement it: r = c 
> sqrt(n),
> theta = n 137.5, where c is a scaling factor and n is the integer position
> of the elements of the spiral.
>

Nice. I remember years ago one of the BBC's Christmas Lectures that 
explained this beautifully. Then I made a little POV scene (which I cannot 
find anymore...)

Thomas

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