Radial Symmetry
A botanical radial study in jade and pale mineral green.
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$29.00
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The mathematics
Rose curves are defined in polar coordinates by r = a·cos(kθ) or r = a·sin(kθ). When k is an integer, the curve has k petals if k is odd, and 2k petals if k is even — a delightful number-theoretic surprise. When k is irrational, the petals never close and the curve fills the disk with a dense quasi-periodic pattern. This image is the literal locus of a single polar equation, traced as a continuous mathematical object.
In the Radial Symmetry collection
Polar coordinates collapse two-dimensional geometry to two simple ideas: a distance from the center and an angle around it. From this minimal starting point you can grow elaborate symmetric forms. The rose curves r = a·cos(kθ) trace petal patterns whose count depends on whether k is even or odd. The superformula of Johan Gielis generalizes this further with six parameters, producing flowers, stars, leaves, and shells from a single closed-form expression. The result is geometry that recalls nature without imitating it — the same mathematics that describes radiolaria, snowflakes, and pollen grains. Every form in this collection is the literal locus of a polar equation, rendered as a continuous mathematical object.
r(theta) = a cos(k theta), r(phi) = (|cos(m phi / 4)|^n2 + |sin(m phi / 4)|^n3)^(-1 / n1)