Jammer Wrote:
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> I'm reasonably sure the Romanesco Cauliflowers
> discussed on page 12 in the above link were a
> naturally occuring design.
The proportion is often identified in human design and in human movement and although humans don't generally go to seed or get eaten these days they can be just as naturally occurring as cauliflowers.
I dunno if cauliflowers become aware of their own design but humans do and they can also become aware of the cauliflower's. This is where spirography needs to get straightened out for there is something deep in the human psyche that guarantees an affinity between it (the eyes, the brain) and the object being observed. There is a certain sympathy, an attraction.
On a potency scale of 1 - 10 many artists often seem to generate 9's. They like what they see and in many cases become guided by shape and proportion, and of course this fascination can occur independently to anything geometry might later explain to them.
Spirality not only occurs naturally but it can also guide the human hand to create it naturally. No awareness of geometry is necessary but here's the crunch ... when humans do express it through shape and proportion with a sort of continual obsessive adjustment, the geometry of their design leaps out and hits them in the face. Applying this to our ancient artists I think it inevitable what followed.