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Whirling Squares Spiral

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Construction of the Whirling Squares' Spiral The light grey squares are marked off within this rectangle. They form what are called the whirling squares. Note that in a golden rectangle with aspect ratio 1.618... a smaller golden rectangle is formed with the part left over after constructing the square.  And this continues as we 'whirl' around. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_sequence : In mathematics, the  Fibonacci sequence  is a  sequence  in which each number is the sum of the two preceding ones. Numbers that are part of the Fibonacci sequence are known as  Fibonacci numbers , commonly denoted  F n   . The sequence commonly starts from 0 and 1, although some authors start the sequence from 1 and 1 or sometimes (as did Fibonacci) from 1 and 2. Starting from 0 and 1, the first few values in the sequence are: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144. Whirling Squares (with 'eye' at lower right) My paintings often have Fibonacci number dime...