Recently a project came up that had the potential to use an abstract sunflower as a lovely motif. After looking into it a bit, there happened to be an equation describing the arrangement of seeds in a sunflower. The equations looked fairly straightforward, but I’m no math wizard and had no idea to figure out the x and y coordinates of the ‘seeds’, but lucky for me I happen to sit across from someone who knows what the hell they’re doing and as a result I have a simple sunflower generator:

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