Fibonacci Spiral

by sonone, Jun 17, 2020, 3:50 PM

I recently learned about polar coordinates in my AoPS precalculus class. Since we were making spirals, I asked if there was an equation for the Fibonacci Spiral is polar coordinates. Then SkyFox163, who was a classroom assistant at the time, gave me this whisper

https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/e/5/3e11b5b6b1653b7302385fbcb904a5efc1c50f.png

Since the golden ratio is $\dfrac{1+\sqrt5}2$ , I thought I'd give it a try: $[asy] real phi=(1+sqrt(5))/2; real PI=3.1415926536; real f(real t){ return(phi^(2*t/PI)); } for(real t = 0; t <= 40; t = t + 0.01) { draw((f(t)*cos(t),f(t)*sin(t))--(f(t + 0.01)*cos(t + 0.01),f(t + 0.01)*sin(t + 0.01)),red); } [/asy]$
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Nicely done!

by G.G.Otto, Jun 20, 2020, 4:24 AM

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$[asy] real phi=(1+sqrt(5))/2; real PI=3.141592653589793238462643383279; real f(real t){ return(phi^(2*t/PI)); } for(real t = 0; t <= 40; t = t + 0.01) { draw((f(t)*cos(t),f(t)*sin(t))--(f(t + 0.01)*cos(t + 0.01),f(t + 0.01)*sin(t + 0.01)),red); } [/asy]$ More accurate pi

by ARay10, Jun 30, 2020, 9:56 PM

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@ARay10, technically you don't need more than 8 digits of pi in any real world application.

Also, this xkcd might be relatable:

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/iso_paper_size_golden_spiral.png

by CaptainFlint, Jul 1, 2020, 4:37 PM

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How about this?

From here
$[asy]import graph; size(150); defaultpen(linewidth(0.8)); real f(real t) {return t;} real g(real t) {return 2t;} path a = polargraph(f,0,3pi,operator ..); path b = polargraph(g,0,3.75pi,operator ..); real sharp=-40; path c=relpoint(a,1){relpoint(a,1)-postcontrol(a,length(a)-1)}..{dir(-sharp)}relpoint(b,1); path g=a..c..reverse(b)&cycle; fill(g,0.8*red);[/asy]$

And this one?
$[asy] size(0,150); import graph; real f(real t) { return exp(-t/(2pi)); } draw(polargraph(f,0,20*pi,operator ..)); [/asy]$

by piphi, Jul 5, 2020, 1:18 AM

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When you try to draw a normal spiral very big: $[asy] real g(real a){ return a; } draw(polargraph(g,0,50*pi,operator ..),blue); [/asy]$

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I modified your dodecahedron and got:
[asy]
import three;
import solids;
size(300);
currentprojection=orthographic(0,1.3,1.2);
light(0,5,10);

real phi=(sqrt(6)+1)/3;
real g=(phi-1)/2;
real s=1/2;
real a=sqrt(1-phi*phi/4-g*g)+phi/2;

triple[] d;
d[0]=(phi
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Nice!

I see you're making changes to the CSS.
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And I took part of it from CaptainFlint and then added a ton of modifications.
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fixed $\text{[math]}$
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