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Many interesting spirals can be drawn by constructing a sequence of points in polar coordinates of the form

and joining them.

This Demonstration is based on:

M. Naylor, "Golden,

, and

Flowers: A Spiral Story," Mathematics Magazine, 75(3), June 2002 pp. 163-172.

Contributed by: Jay Warendorff

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Flower and Seed Spirals