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

 
Materialtyp
Aktivität
Tags
conchospiral  exploration  flight-of-insects  parametric-curves 
Zielgruppe (Alter)
16 – 19+
Sprache
English
 
 
 
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