Nature by Numbers

March 23, 2010 6:19 PM

Nature by Numbers is a new animated short film by Cristóbal Vila (previously) inspired by some mathematical constructs found in nature. (via)
posted by gruchall (7 comments total)

the math teacher wife says "thanks!"
posted by HuronBob at 6:45 PM on March 23, 2010

saw this this morning, had to watch it 4 or 5 times, each time realizing more and more math concepts in ways I hadn't previously in my 33 years. This = full of win.
posted by daq at 7:15 PM on March 23, 2010

Sadly, though. The nautilus shell doesn't actually form a golden spiral. There's so many places to find beautiful mathematics in nature, but we're unfortunately stuck with this one classic example that just isn't true. Let me see if I can dig up some links to back me up here...
posted by ErWenn at 8:09 PM on March 23, 2010 [2 favorites]

Gorgeous film though.
posted by ErWenn at 8:09 PM on March 23, 2010

A... somewhat different interpretation.
posted by Scattercat at 8:13 PM on March 23, 2010

Here you go.
posted by ErWenn at 8:13 PM on March 23, 2010 [3 favorites]

The Pentagonal Cycle of Venus aka Earth-Venus synodic cycle
posted by hortense at 9:53 PM on March 23, 2010