Blooms: Strobe-Animated Sculptures

You ever see something that is just cool? That's all, just cool to look at for a while.

These are 3-D printed sculptures designed by John Edmark to animate when spun under a strobe light. The placement of the appendages is determined by the same method nature uses in pinecones and sunflowers. The rotation speed is synchronized to the strobe so that one flash occurs every time the sculpture turns 137.5º—the golden angle. If you count the number of spirals on any of these sculptures you will find that they are always Fibonacci numbers.

Give yourself a few minutes today to just relax and watch the coolness.