Which Flower is It?

Year: 2019 Authors: Andrew J. Simoson

Core claim

A flower’s layered corona structure encodes convergents of an unknown irrational number, allowing reverse engineering of the number from the image.

Topics

continued fractions, irrational numbers, phyllotaxis, reverse engineering

Domains

number theory, diophantine approximation, continued fractions, generative art, book cover design, stylized floral imagery

Methods

optimal continued fraction, geometric construction, visual inference

Media

polar flower diagrams, book cover art, Figure 1 bouquet illustration

Source status

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