Pineapples, unlike people, don't have bilateral symmetry.

Good man. Double helix. Ha, ha.

And that's how I really began. So let's begin.

The trick is to use a Ulam spiral.

Spirally string art ish patterns. Written by Jamie Zawinski 1992.

In this case, twenty one.

And I think if Grace Kelly is the most glamorous person, maybe a spiral staircase with glass block may be the most glamorous interior shot, because a spiral staircase is incredibly glamorous.

Keyword almost.

Simple, isn't it?

The cloth's cut on the bias.

But the only difference is that the fibers are arranged differently.

Ship in approach, skipper. Helical vector oriented.

And it's from X ray crystallography, so it's an accurate model of DNA.

They bail out as soon as they get to the top of Saint Ivo, that little spiral structure you see there.

But you know, I think you are familiar with fractals the Mandelbrot spirals and all these things.

Green is the alchemy of consciousness, with its spiraling energy and DNA.

Gears

This generates a languidly scrolling vertical field of sinusoidal colors. Written by Jamie Zawinski 2007.

So the image behind me shows a piece of tissue in one of these cross helical skeletons cut so that you're looking at the surface of the wall.

So when you shake the chain, it then folds up into any configuration that you've programmed in so in this case, a spiral, or in this case, two cubes next to each other.

In the middle we have a motor, and we also have a gear in it.

This behaves schizophrenically and makes a lot of typos. Written by Jamie Zawinski 1997.

Draws a set of interacting, square spiral producing automata. The spirals grow outward until they hit something, then they go around it. Written by Jeff Epler 1999.

Gear count

Struts retract.

It is the project of questioning what we believe and why we believe it what Socrates called the examined life.

So let's use a modern technique to see the big picture.

A woman named Aomame in 1984 Japan finds herself negotiating down a spiral staircase off an elevated highway.

I'll put it over here, and as I move this away from the source, you'll notice the spiral.

let's take a look.

Your gears are on the left.

It's a model skeleton that I made out of a piece of cloth that I wrapped around an inflated balloon.

...to the missing gears?

The pilot tried to bring it in for an emergency landing.

If you count the number of spiral going left, and the number of spirals going right, they'll be adjacent Fibonacci numbers.

You claim that that Sponge Bob square pants lives in a pineapple under the sea, but does he really?

Rolling.

Rolling in.

And if you weren't just looking at a little section of the fibers, those fibers would be going in helices around the long axis of the skeleton something like a Chinese finger trap, where you stick your fingers in and they get stuck.

All right, gear up.

Commence gear exchange.

High gear, gentlemen, high gear.

Is it turning?

The principle is the same.

is your foot on the gas?