{"id":6892,"date":"2012-01-21T07:28:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T23:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=6892"},"modified":"2019-09-19T15:41:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T07:41:41","slug":"friday-math-movie-spirals-fibonacci-and-being-a-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-spirals-fibonacci-and-being-a-plant-6892","title":{"rendered":"Friday math movie: Spirals, Fibonacci, and Being a Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vi Hart is at it again. In this Doodling in Math video we find out about different kinds of spirals and how Fibonacci numbers can be observed in pine cones, pineapples and artichokes.<\/p>\n<p>This is part 1 of 3 videos on this topic.<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ahXIMUkSXX0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>As a follow up, blogger MathHombre constructed a GeoGebra file where you can explore the concept of logarithmic spirals. (It takes forever to load, but worth waiting. Move the sliders or click the tiny right arrow at the bottom left of the file to run the animation.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geogebra.org\/m\/PCdxBP84\">Logarithmic Spirals in GeoGebra<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See also my article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/golden-spiral-6512\">Golden Spirals<\/a>, a special case of Logarithmic Spirals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-spirals-fibonacci-and-being-a-plant-6892#comments\" id=\"comms\">1 Comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-spirals-fibonacci-and-being-a-plant-6892\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2012\/01\/spirals-fibonacci_th.jpg\" alt=\"spirals Fibonacci\" width=\"128\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nVi Hart presents an enthusiastic rendering of spirals and Fibonacci, as relating to plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12109,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6892\/revisions\/12109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}