The first 13 Fibonacci numbers are shown above. The way you get the next Fibonacci number, is to take one of those, add the previous number, and that's the next number. Let's say you want the 14thnumber, take 233, add 144, and the 14th number is 377. There are formulas to calculate any Fibonacci number, say the 100th, But that's a bit complicated, and not really necessary for anything I'm doing right now. As you see, when graphed like this, it resembles a sea shell. Also, Fibonacci numbers appear all over nature.
As for these photos: Looking at the golden spiral, I realized how to make a perfectly round spiral. You see, spirals (as I know) have several centers. Look at the golden spiral, each quarter circle grows, but to connect to the previous quarter circle, the center has to shift. The center of all of those quarter circles is in a different place. My spiral also has several centers, actually, it has four. If you look at the center of my spiral, you'll see there are two white spirals, and two grey spirals swirling outward. To celebrate this spiral realization frenzy, I decided to paint one on the wall. I used some of the dark grey paint left over from my Carbonite and mixed it with some old white paint and got the color you see. I planned it to be a bit more subtle, but I like how it turned out. I drew it on the wall with a compass made out of a piece of cardboard with holes drilled in it every two inches. Then I free hand painted the dark grey inside the pencil guide lines, and that's it! It's on an eight foot high wall, and each spiral segment is 2 inches thick, making this thing 62 inches tall. That's me standing in front of it with some weapons (maybe a page coming soon).
I just rented PI again, and I'm eating a bag of Publix
Milk Chocolate Chips. Wait a minute, what's that
feeling? Am I happy right now? Cool! Anyways, I felt
like explaining the spiral some more,and I get to
edit some pictures to do so, so here's a little
more:
Notice the colored sections, each of them has
ten segments, and is a quarter of a circle.
The red area has a red dot to show it's center,
and so do the other colors. Now if all the
centers were on top of each other, it would be
a circle, but sence they're off-set from each
other, it's now a spiral. Move your cursor over
the spiral. Play with it, hold click on it. Go
ahead, I won't look. Watch the pieces align into a
circle. When it's a circle, the segments go around in
circles. When you off-set them, the circle breaks, and the segments "escape"
and get bigger, and expand into infinite. Now do you understand? Good, now
go paint some spirals, and rent the movie PI! Or at least go check out their
site: www.pithemovie.com
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