The golden ratio phi = 1.618... has curious properties. On a sphere, if we make uniform steps in cosine latitude and longitude steps of 360/phi degrees, we get remarkably even distributions of points on a spherical Fibonacci spiral.pic.twitter.com/hWSk9aRnng
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Is this quantified in some way? Is phi the local minimum in terms of energy of the generated points (in the space of parameters for this technique), or is it kinda close for weird reasons?
