The Flight of Insects. Conchospirals

How do insects orientate themselves when they fly in the night? The trajectory is a conchospiral winding on a cone with a vertex at the light source and cutting the light rays on the surface of the cone at a constant angle.

 

Irina Boyadzhiev

 
Tipo de recurso
Actividad
Etiquetas
conchospiral  exploration  flight-of-insects  parametric-curves 
Grupo destino (edad)
16 – 19+
Idioma
English
 
 
 
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