Hacker News·8 min read
Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display
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One of nature's beautiful patterns captured in dancing lights
I've been fascinated by understanding patterns that appear in nature, through code. Communing with the inherent emergent patterns that exist in the universe.
The phyllotaxis is one such pattern, the expanding double-spiral shape that appears in the center of sunflowers, succulents, other plants. It's surprisingly simple code:
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