Sculpture creates a hypnotizing animation when it spins

Hypnotizing indeed! Amazing. Look what happens when you spin these 3-D printed sculptures designed by inventor/artist John Edmark to animate when spun...

INSIDER

The placement of the appendages is determined by the same method nature uses in pinecones and sunflowers. The rotation speed is synchronized to the strobe so that one flash occurs every time the sculpture turns 137.5º—the golden angle. If you count the number of spirals on any of these sculptures you will find that they are always Fibonacci numbers.

For this video, rather than using a strobe, the camera was set to a very short shutter speed (1/4000 sec) in order to freeze the spinning sculpture. John Edmark teaches design at Stanford University. 

Visit John's website here and Vimeo site here.

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