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Zooming in on the dragonfly almost gave me a seizure.

???

This is just showing unrelated numbers and drawing arbitrary boxes around nature.

The bit where it started showing 137.5 degrees and firing circles off which then turned into a sunflower seed, what the hell was that? Why not 132 degrees or 7, there was no correlation to the position or number of the seeds and the angle at which circles were fired off. And every shell adheres to the fibonacci sequence - is that tru? I've never heard that before. A bunch of lines randomly spinning and aligning to show a patch on a wing of a dragonfly? The numbers were completely arbitrary to the pictures shown, don't like the combination of the title to the content of this video.

I just finished watching all 6 seasons of Numb3rs and I must say I like this kind of stuff. Math and nature go hand in hand...

nature IS math. They're not 2 separate things that go along with each other. It's just hard to see sometimes because it's hidden under a veil of complexity.>> ^LarsaruS:

I just finished watching all 6 seasons of Numb3rs and I must say I like this kind of stuff. Math and nature go hand in hand...

Here's an explanation of the math behind the vid.

>> ^dannym3141:

???
This is just showing unrelated numbers and drawing arbitrary boxes around nature.
The bit where it started showing 137.5 degrees and firing circles off which then turned into a sunflower seed, what the hell was that? Why not 132 degrees or 7, there was no correlation to the position or number of the seeds and the angle at which circles were fired off. And every shell adheres to the fibonacci sequence - is that tru? I've never heard that before. A bunch of lines randomly spinning and aligning to show a patch on a wing of a dragonfly? The numbers were completely arbitrary to the pictures shown, don't like the combination of the title to the content of this video.


It looks like this was made by an artist with an interest in math, not the reverse. That would explain why the imagery took priority of the mathematical explanations.

>> ^dannym3141:

???
This is just showing unrelated numbers and drawing arbitrary boxes around nature.
The bit where it started showing 137.5 degrees and firing circles off which then turned into a sunflower seed, what the hell was that? Why not 132 degrees or 7, there was no correlation to the position or number of the seeds and the angle at which circles were fired off. And every shell adheres to the fibonacci sequence - is that tru? I've never heard that before. A bunch of lines randomly spinning and aligning to show a patch on a wing of a dragonfly? The numbers were completely arbitrary to the pictures shown, don't like the combination of the title to the content of this video.


He's some reading for you: http://library.thinkquest.org/27890/applications5.html

Also he was showing the relationship of "natural" shape patterns. He related them using natural patterns and numbers.

How is this not in *geek?

Invocations (geek) cannot be called by lampishthing because lampishthing is not privileged - sorry.

*quality!

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by blutruth.

math = useful

Damn nature, you beautiful!

>> ^hpqp:

Damn nature, you beautiful!


Damn you, hpqp! You stole my comment.

This video immediately reminded me of "Pi", one of Aronofsky's best films imo.

http://videosift.com/video/Pi-Movie-Trailer

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