Phyllotaxis

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What It Is

Golden-angle sunflower spiral --- successive seeds placed at 137.508° (= 360°/phi²), the most irrational angle. Quantized angular positions carry genuine quasicrystalline spectral structure with peaks at golden-ratio frequencies

Interpretation

Standard analysis sees: rich, high-entropy values; anti-correlated (alternating); anti-persistent; blue spectrum (high-frequency power); strongly periodic; time-irreversible (slow rise, sharp collapse); homoskedastic; monofractal; low-dimensional; stationary. The atlas additionally detects Penrose (Quasicrystal):long_range_order, Time Reversibility:ordinal_reversal_distance.

What standard analysis sees
tail heaviness0.25
asymmetry0.43
occupancy0.99
short-range corr0.07
long-range memory0.07
spectral colour0.87
periodicity0.88
complexity0.20
time-irreversibility0.08
volatility clustering0.01
multifractality0.06
dimensionality0.08
nonstationarity0.05
What the atlas adds
Penrose (Quasicrystal):long_range_order+7.8z
quasiperiodic long-range order (sharp φ-ratio ACF peak)
Time Reversibility:ordinal_reversal_distance+3.1z
time-reversal symmetry breaking via Bandt-Pompe ordinal patterns
Atlas-extreme metrics the standard bank can’t predict for this source
Moiré:moire_phi_response+6.0zbank-miss 2.3σ
Septagonal (Danzer):cubic_coherence-4.5zbank-miss 1.4σ
Laplacian:laplacian_evolutionary_index-3.3zbank-miss 1.8σ
D4 Triality:triplet_temporal-2.8zbank-miss 1.4σ
p-Variation:volatility_clustering-2.5zbank-miss 1.0σ
Hodge–Laplacian:solenoidal_fraction-2.0zbank-miss 2.0σ

Composition

dtypefloat64
range[8.762e-05, 6.283]
unique values16384 / 16384
mean ± std3.14 ± 1.81

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Atlas Position

Nearest neighborDistance
Circle Map Quasiperiodic1.96cross-origin
Standard Map K=0.5 (Mixed)3.98cross-origin
Critical Circle Map (Silver Mean)4.14cross-origin

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Which Geometries Light Up

Cayley › Cayley:local_linearityrank 1/3061.0000
Fisher Information › Fisher Information:effective_dimensionrank 4/30616.0000
Fisher Information › Fisher Information:log_det_fisherrank 303/30644.3614
Fisher Information › Fisher Information:trace_fisherrank 303/306256.0002
Hodge–Laplacian › Hodge–Laplacian:solenoidal_fractionrank 305/3060.2384
Hodge–Laplacian › Hodge–Laplacian:curl_div_ratiorank 306/306-1.2723
Inflation (Substitution) › Inflation (Substitution):acf_geometricrank 3/3060.8888
Laplacian › Laplacian:gradient_curvature_anticorrelationrank 3/3061.0000
Laplacian › Laplacian:curvature_autocorrelationrank 302/306-0.3090
Laplacian › Laplacian:laplacian_evolutionary_indexrank 303/306-0.3090
Laplacian › Laplacian:cross_scale_curvature_coherencerank 305/306-0.5878
Modular Residue › Modular Residue:cycle_fractionrank 2/3061.0000
Modular Residue › Modular Residue:occupancy_entropyrank 2/3061.0000
Moiré › Moiré:moire_phi_responserank 4/3060.2960
Penrose (Quasicrystal) › Penrose (Quasicrystal):phi_towerrank 3/3060.8291
Septagonal (Danzer) › Septagonal (Danzer):cubic_coherencerank 305/306-0.2676
Septagonal (Danzer) › Septagonal (Danzer):z_primaryrank 305/306-0.5634
Sol (Thurston) › Sol (Thurston):path_lengthrank 302/3069236.8820
Spectral Graph › Spectral Graph:weyl_exponentrank 3/3062.1615
Wasserstein › Wasserstein:entropyrank 4/3065.0000
Wasserstein › Wasserstein:concentrationrank 304/3061.0031
Wasserstein › Wasserstein:dist_from_uniformrank 304/3060.0000
p-Variation › p-Variation:volatility_clusteringrank 306/306-0.6180
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