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Creating The Never-Ending Bloom - YouTube
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I'm sometimes asked why am I sort of
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someone treated with spiral what is it
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about spirals and I think part of the
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answer is that I just find them
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beautiful but I think spirals also make
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reference to the fact that you can never
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return to the same place again that
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nothing ever does truly repeat it goes
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infinitely small and it goes infinitely
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large it's endless
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and you know we sort of don't know where
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we came from and we don't know where
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we're going and we're just sort of this
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you know this piece of that larger
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picture
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I'm John ed mark I'm an artist designer
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and inventor and I teach at Stanford
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University I don't think of myself as a
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sculptor clearly the works are
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sculptures of sorts but in a sense
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that's a coincidence they're just the
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medium that I'm using to ask and answer
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questions that is interesting the
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driving motivation of my work is a
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search for unusual behaviors things that
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that are not intuitive that maybe seem
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impossible
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math has a kind of precision and a way
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of clarifying relationships that allows
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me to to achieve some of these behaviors
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and patterns that I'm trying to create I
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was working with with an essentially
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flat puzzle I noticed that that
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perimeter never changed shape it just
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changed into scale as you added removed
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pieces and that then led to the notion
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of stacking me one on top of the other
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and rotating them relative to each other
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to cause these patterns to appear in the
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form of sort of plateaus that can move
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up and down the tower and I'm rotating
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it each time I'm rotating it 137 point
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five degrees the golden angle which is
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based on the golden ratio the golden
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ratio is the ratio where the smaller is
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to the larger as the larger is to the
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hole and that this is a very powerful
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generative ratio anytime you create a
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pattern using the golden angle you're
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going to end up with spiraled appearance
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and it's actually been shown
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mathematically to be the best way to
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distribute leave on a stem to minimize
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overlap I say a leaf or a petal or a
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seed gets put out here the next one will
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get put out 137 degrees around over here
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and the next one then gets put out 100
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degrees over here and around and around
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and around placing these in place with
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leaf and when that's done in that
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fashion you end up getting these kinds
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of very evenly distributed
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but the spirals are actually a symptom
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of this process of placing each bud 137
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degrees around from the previous bud
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when I was wanting to demonstrate this
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transforming nature of the tower
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I've decided to animate them and and
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when I animated it I was surprised to
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discover that not only did it show
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plateaus appearing and disappearing but
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there was there was this very strong
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sense of continuity of the plateaus
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moving down the tower or up the tower
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about five years later I suddenly
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realized oh what if I just keep on
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rotating the entire tower not just don't
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not just the next level and in fact
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glooms are direct descendant of a
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multi-year long sequent exploration on
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these golden angles bio geometry studies
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I call them blooms because they tend to
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have a sense of blossoming opening
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expanding to them as animate when a
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bloom is animating it's endless if a
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plant could grow forever it would kind
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of be doing that blooming behavior
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forever
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the first thing I do is I have to create
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the structure for it and that is of
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course based on using the golden angle
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so I placed where the elements are going
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to be and then I am nice shape va's
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elements depending on what I want the
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behavior to be I will animate them
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making it expand making them rotate
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blooms can be filmed in two ways you can
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actually run a strobe that is
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synchronized to the cameras film rate or
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if you set the camera to use a very
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short shutter speed it will behave
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effectively like a strobe
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because the elements of the bloom are
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essentially frames of animation if the
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frames aren't exactly aligned you're
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going to get a non smooth flow the kind
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of distortions and warping that you see
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happening our result of me slightly
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breaking the rule of rotating by the
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golden angles and so they're they're
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moving back and forth in terms of
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hovering around that angle but not
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causing them to have this kind of kind
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of warp distorted effect I think my work
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is most successful when it evokes and to
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wonder when it sort of seems to be
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magical what I'm trying to achieve in my
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work is something that will evoke that
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in somebody else and they'll say wow
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what's going on there how is that
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possible
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