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Stem lattice — the series

One essay so far on this idea, and more questions about it than one essay answers.
  1. A stem unrolled: 28 nodes at 137.51° with a rise of 0.090 circumferences. The counter is shown these coordinates and the circumference, and finds 2 parastichies one way and 3 the other. The faint strips left and right are the same stem: a family leaving one edge re-enters at the other.

    A stem is a cylinder

    The sunflower is the photograph, and it is the hard case. Nearly all real phyllotaxis happens on a stem, where the geometry is a lattice on a cylinder with two parameters — and where the spiral counts, which on a disc change with radius, are the same the whole way up.

    part 1 · cylinder

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