On geodesics of phyllotaxis

Abstract: Seeds of sunflowers are often modelled by the map

n l o n g m a p s t o v a r p h i_{h} e t a (n) = s q r t n e^{2 i p i n h e t a}

leading to a roughly uniform repartition with two consecutive seeds separated by the divergence angle

2 p i h e t a

for

h e t a

the golden ratio. We associate to an arbitrary real divergence angle

2 p i h e t a

a geodesic path

of the modular curve and use it for local descriptions of the image

v a r p h i_{h} e t a (m a t h b b N)

of the phyllotactic map

v a r p h i_{h} e t a

.

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