Sunflower Seed Arrangements
Sunflower Seed Arrangements
This Demonstration shows the distribution of sunflower seeds as a function of the number of seeds[1]. Generally, sunflowers have 800–2000 seeds. The function has the form , , where is the golden ratio and is an arbitrary constant (here ).
θ=n
2π
2
ϕ
r=c
n
ϕ
c
1
References
References
[1] H. Vogel, "A Better Way to Construct the Sunflower Head," Mathematical Biosciences, 44(3–4), 1979 pp. 179–189. doi:10.1016/0025-5564(79)90080-4.
External Links
External Links
Permanent Citation
Permanent Citation
Joost de Jong
"Sunflower Seed Arrangements"
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/SunflowerSeedArrangements/
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Published: January 3, 2013