Learning how to draw the Golden Ratio, also known as the Golden Spiral or Fibonacci Spiral, can enhance your understanding of design and composition in nature and art.

Better known by his pen name, Fibonacci, he came up with a number sequence that keeps popping up throughout the plant kingdom, and the art world too.

For years, Venezuelan artist Rafael Araujo has been the undisputed master of golden-ratio art, meticulously hand-illustrating examples of the Fibonacci spiral–a geometric curlicue based upon a ...

Scales and bracts are modified leaves, and the spiral arrangements in pine cones and pineapples reflect the spiral growth habit of stems. To confirm this, bring in a leafless stem from some tree ...

One set rises gradually, another moderately and the third steeply. Count the number of spirals and you'll find eight gradual, 13 moderate and 21 steeply rising ones. Fibonacci numbers, again.

Sunflowers are another famous example of Fibonacci at work in nature. Particularly, the arrangement of seedheads on sunflowers often takes on Fibonacci numbers. For example, if 34 seed rows curve ...

Spirals have been showing up in art for centuries. Here's one man who built an entire career out of them. By Avery Thompson Published: Apr 26, 2017 5:06 PM EDT SciFri // YouTube ...

Scales and bracts are modified leaves, and the spiral arrangements in pine cones and pineapples reflect the spiral growth habit of stems. To confirm this, bring in a leafless stem from some tree ...