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Waves of green - # 5. Ferns and Fibonacci

May 15th, 2007 by Nadja

Fern

Nature’s own wavy design - inspired by the fibonacci-numbers.

7 Responses to “Waves of green - # 5. Ferns and Fibonacci”

  1. on 16 May 2007 at 10:49 am   cyclone bill

    Very nice… reminds me of the soles of the cool shoes from Japan. Are the ferns Danish?

  2. on 16 May 2007 at 12:42 pm   levende

    Beautiful, Nadja!

    When following the Wikilink above, it did, however, surprise me that the article didn’t say anything about Danish poet Inger Christensen’s use of the Fibonacci numbers, whereas this is what it says on the Wikipedia article about the Poet herself:

    “In the 1981 masterpiece, alfabet, the author uses the alphabet (from a [“apricots”] to n [“nights”]) along with the Fibonacci mathematical sequence in which the next number is the sum of the two previous ones (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34…). As Christensen has explained: “The numerical ratios exist in nature: the way a leek wraps around itself from the inside, and the head of a snowflower, are both based on this series.” Her system ends on the n, suggesting many possible meanings including “n’s” significance as any whole number.”

  3. on 18 May 2007 at 11:05 am   Nadja

    @ Cyclone Bill
    Oh yes, the ferns are Danish indeed. But it seems to me that ferns - all over the world - have a jurassic touch that makes them seem somewhat out of this world.

  4. on 18 May 2007 at 11:06 am   Nadja

    @ Levende
    The Inger Christensen poem is my favorite Fabonacci-fascination too. I fear, however, that it will be very hard to translate…?

  5. on 02 Jun 2007 at 3:41 pm   Nadja

    As for those magic Fibonacci-numbers - check out Robert Patersons slides on Natural Organisation from Reboot9 :-)

    http://smartpei.typepad.com/robert_patersons_weblog/2007/06/reboot9_my_slid.html

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    […] Whenever I buy one of these I always spend hours gazing at the wavy structures that repeat themselves in various sizes but always in the same intricate fibonacchi-pattern. […]

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