Fibonacci sequence in nature pdf series#

Peter Randall-Paige's design is based on the spirals found in seeds and sunflowers and pinecones.Ĭalifornia Polytechnic Engineering Plaza The College of Engineering at the CaliforniaPolytechnic State University have plans for anew Engineering Plazabased on the Fibonacci numbers and several geometric diagrams you will alsohave seen on other pages here. What is 300 million years old, weights 70 tonnes and is the largest of its type in the world? It is the new sculpture called The Seed at the centre of The Core which was unveiled on Midsummer's Day 2007 (June 23). The logo shows the pattern of panels on the roof. It marks the Millenium in the year 2000 and is now one of the most popular tourist attractions in the SW of England.Ī new £15 million Education Centre called The Corehas been designed using Fibonacci Numbers and plant spiralsto reflect the nature of the site - plants fromall over the world. Austell,between Plymouth and Penzance in SW England and 50 miles from Land's End,has some wonderfully impressive greenhouses based on geodesic domes (called biomes) built in anold quarry. Modern Architecture The Eden Project's new Education Building Allan T Kohl's Art Images for College Teaching has a lot of images on ancient art and architecture.Apart from that, I cannot see any other clear golden sections - can you? The dividingpartition in the inner temple seems to be on the golden section both of themain temple and the inner temple. David Silverman's page on theParthenon has lots of information.Dr Ann M Nicgorski of the Department of Art and Art History at Williamette Universityin the USA has a largecollection of links to Parthenon pictures with many details of the building.

There is a wonderful collection ofpictures of the Parthenon and theAcropolis at Indiana University's web site.

The Panthenon image here seems to show golden sections in the placing of the three horizontal lines but the overall shape and the other prominent features are not golden section ratios. However, due to the top part being missing and the base being curvedto counteract an optical illusion of level lines appearing bowed, these are only an approximatemeasures but reasonably good ones.

the plan view: 5 as long as the front is wide so the floor area is a square-root-of-5 rectangle.

the front view (see diagram above): a golden rectangle, Phi times as wide as it is high.

It appears to be built on a design of golden rectangles and root-5 rectangles: It is largely in ruins but is now undergoing some restoration (see the photosat Roy George's site in the link above).Īgain there are no original plans of the Parthenon itself. Its most famous monument is the Parthenon, a temple to the goddess Athena built around430 or 440 BC. The Acropolis(see a plan diagram or Roy George's planof the Parthenon with active spots to click on to view photographs), in the centre of Athens, is an outcrop of rock that dominates the ancient city. A construction for thegolden section point is found in Euclid's Elements.The golden rectangle is supposed to appear in many of the proportions of that famousancient Greek temple, the Parthenon, in the Acropolis in Athens, Greece but there is no original documentary evidence that this was deliberately designed in.(There is a replica of the original building (accurate to one-eighth of an inch!) at Nashville which calls itself 'The Athens of South USA'.) It occurs naturallyin some of the proportions of the Five Platonic Solids (as we have already seen). The ancient Greeks knew of a rectangle whose sides are in the goldenproportion (1 : 1.618 which is the same as 0.618 : 1). The Golden section in architecture The Parthenon and Greek Architecture

Two myths about clocks and golden ratio time.

Miscellaneous, Amusing and Odd places to find Phi and the Fibonacci Numbers.

Bartók, Debussy, Schubert, Bach and Satie.

Fibonacci and Phi in fashioning Furniture.

Links to Art sources including Contemporary Artists.

Graham Sutherland's Tapestry in Coventry Cathedral.

The United Nations Building in New York.

California Polytechnic Engineering Plaza.

The Eden Project's new Education Building.

Fibonacci sequence in nature pdf series#

This section introduces you to some of the occurrences of the Fibonacci series and the Golden Ratio inarchitecture, art and music. Fibonacci Numbers and The Golden Section in Art, Architecture and Music Fibonacci Numbers and The Golden Section in Art, Architecture and Music