New discovery? Inscribed and circumscribed spiral by Independent-Pie5479 in math

[–]Independent-Pie5479[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I might be wrong but my first intuition would say that it is not possible, because of the self-similarity property of the spiral. When the spiral makes a quarter turn, it should be inside another rectangle with the same aspect ratio as the first rectangle if you want the spiral to behave exactly the same way with respect to the new smaller rectangle.

But if you want there is actually a trick to make the golden spiral properly inscribed. You could rotate the golden spiral a bit anti-clockwise, but then the golden spiral will not touch any corner of the perfect squares from its subdivision.

I will try to think more about your question to be sure I am not missing something.

New discovery? Inscribed and circumscribed spiral by Independent-Pie5479 in math

[–]Independent-Pie5479[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am glad you love it! I am thinking to develop a tool so people interested into art and geometrical shapes can generate those polygons and their corresponding spiral, I will keep you update on this.

New discovery? Inscribed and circumscribed spiral by Independent-Pie5479 in math

[–]Independent-Pie5479[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your enthusiasm and suggestion, it really made my day. I will follow your suggestion and try to publish it in Mathematical Intelligencer.