Doyle Spirals

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Doyle spirals are stunning patterns made of tangent circles, each of which touches six others. The method of generating these and many other patterns started with Peter Doyle's now-historical observation: suppose and
are positive real numbers. Then six circles of successive radii
close up exactly when placed tangent to one another around a circle of radius 1.
Contributed by: Jaime Rangel-Mondragon (July 2014)
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[1] J. Leys. "Hexagonal Circle Packings and Doyle Spirals." (Feb 2005) www.josleys.com/articles/HexCirclePackings.pdf.
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