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Approximate and true Golden Spirals. The green spiral is made from quarter-circles tangent to the interior of each square, while the red spiral is a much closer approximation to a Golden Spiral, a special type of logarithmic spiral. Overlapping portions appear in yellow.
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2005-08-03T21:28:21Z Pau 353x228 (4861 Bytes) * '''Description''': Approximate and true Golden Spirals. The green spiral is made from quarter-circles tangent to the interior of each square, while the red spiral is a Golden Spiral, a special type of [[logarithmic spiral]]
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Approximate and true Golden spirals. The green spiral is made from quarter-circles tangent to the interior of each square, while the red spiral is much closer approximation to a Golden Spiral