Monday, January 11, 2010

you do the math

Nearly everyone would agree that flowers are inherently beautiful. They are colorful, delicate, diverse, and alive. Flowers also carry the weight of certain connotations, depending on the fower, the color, the arrangement, or the occasion. Recently on Design*Sponge, a home design blog, I found an article about applying trigonometry and geometry to flower arrangements to make then scientifically aesthetically appealing.

Two women who write for the blog, also own their own flourist school, called the Little Flower School. Here, geometry and advanced spherical trigonometry are required! To sum up the requirements for a pleasing floral arrangement without taking out my calculator, they suggest arranging these "floral moments" in groups of odd numbers, as it is scientifically easier on the eyes.

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