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Nautilus - Golden Ratio

Explain how the spiral of a nautilus shell emerges from the golden ratio. Print the photo and show how repeated subdivision of a golden rectangle can produce the spiral of a nautilus shell by drawing the rectangles in the correct places on the shell.

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Uploaded on September 29, 2005
Taken on September 28, 2005