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Golden Angle Garden

Turn the angle between each new seed. Compare aligned spokes at simple fractions of a turn with the evenly spread points of the golden-angle placement model.

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This interactive demo gives you a visual way into math. The key ideas include geometry, golden angle, phyllotaxis, patterns.

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