Sunday 4 April 2010

Maths I See 2



My photo was not taken from the best angle, the coincidences could be much better, such as the position of the centers of the equilateral triangles. Anyway, it's interesting. The black lines are the angles' bisectors. The black dots are the centers of the sides- both red and green.
How can a humble tulip know all that Geometry?

4 comments:

caluad said...

I don't think the tulip is aware of the amount of knowledge inside him.Nevertheless his way of facing the world is not humble, in certain way, he's saying: here I am, look at me and try to read me.

ivasil said...

Yes, maybe opening up so widely is a statement, maybe it's daring us to "read" it, as you say! :)
Why "him"? The Romanian word for tulip is "lalea" (it's feminine, with "ea" a diphtong), is it masculine in Spanish?

caluad said...

tulipan in Spanish is masculine. isn't it weird? Poor plants they may not know what we call them.

ivasil said...

Yes, it's strange, as with the autumn, remember? It's the same. This makes us see them in different ways, according to the name. Give them different features.
But, I think they don't care, they just bloom.