Phyllotaxis
the spirals are counted, not admired
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Control spec — the series

One essay so far on this idea, and more questions about it than one essay answers.
  1. A periodicity reports a different partner every time. eight kinematic lattices, differing only in the seed of their disturbance, each read by the same instrument. The disturbance repeats every 8 organs at a weight of 0.9: it puts a strong comb at spacing 8 — 0.75 against a band of 0.07 — and the partner it names is 8/10, 8/12, 8/11 across the 8 stems and never 8/13, which is what the position counter finds in every one of them. There is no placement rule in any of these arrangements.

    The control a survey would need

    A comb no longer shows that a plant computes its pattern, so the survey this site has been specifying for a long time has to change. What it loses is its headline; what it gains is a measurement a botanist can actually make — six requirements, four of them already in the specification, and a quantity nobody has ever reported.

    part 1 · wrong

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