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Fig 23 shows iterations 1 to 15 at 137.5°, [137.50776°...] looking at the colored spaces, rather than the petals. It is easier like this to see what is going on. Where the Fibonacci numbers occur there are only two colors in a diagram. These are the points of best balance. Even so it is clear that the early numbers do not suit flowers so well as the later ones.

Fig 23

It is interesting too to count the number of times a color appears. Fig 24 on page 6, [Spirals and stuff], shows a list of these appearances turning into a graph.

It's often said that mutual repulsion ensures that each new element shows up as far away as possible from its predecessors. The cyberflowers show that it is not so. New elements occupy the larger gaps, but always divide them unequally. [Compare the effects of mutual repulsion on the campanula - Fig 9, page 2]

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