Cucumber!

[Conor Russell]

[Marty Kasprzyk]

The cucumber used a compass construction to make the spiral.

[Jim Bress]

[Rue]

Hmm...

Viticcio di cetriolo = rotolo

We need Will and Addie to make sense of it all 

[Michael Jennings]

[Violadamore]

Definitely food for thought.

[Addie]

https://books.google.com/books?id=8pkZAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Draw+acanthus&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiXjaeN-97cAhUQUt8KHZQJAR4Q6AEIJDAA

... page 66+

[Rue]

7 minutes ago, Addie said:

https://books.google.com/books?id=8pkZAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Draw+acanthus&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiXjaeN-97cAhUQUt8KHZQJAR4Q6AEIJDAA

... page 66+

I knew you'd have part of the secret figured out!  

[Nick Allen]

...but what could it mean!?

5 hours ago, Conor Russell said:

 

[edi malinaric]

Cool!

Thanks for posting.

cheers edi

[Jeff Jetson]

A great picture from the garden! 

[Andreas Preuss]

Beautiful! 

We can learn everything from nature.

[carl1961]

LOL, the curl means , the rotation of the sun tells the direction of the curl, same as for pole beans and how it wraps the pole, you will not find any going backwards, but as for the violin I have no clue LOL

[carl1961]

7 hours ago, Addie said:

https://books.google.com/books?id=8pkZAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Draw+acanthus&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiXjaeN-97cAhUQUt8KHZQJAR4Q6AEIJDAA

... page 66+

here is the downloadable copy  http://www.engravingschool.com/Drawing_Acanthus.pdf

[David Burgess]

9 hours ago, Conor Russell said:

This is a product of ancient alien engineering. What constellation does it point to?

[GeorgeH]

Looks like a typical Markie. See what Jacob says. 

(Thanks for posting.)

 

[Julian Cossmann Cooke]

The Amatis grew cucumbers.  Done.  End of story,  Schluß.  Boom.  Mike drop.

[glebert]

9 hours ago, GeorgeH said:

Looks like a typical Markie. See what Jacob says. 

(Thanks for posting.)

 

LOL

[Martin McClean]

22 hours ago, Conor Russell said:

I know a true scientist who could explain the science without diminishing the miracle.  I'm just humbled and impressed. 

[Violadamore]

15 hours ago, GeorgeH said:

Looks like a typical Markie. See what Jacob says. 

(Thanks for posting.)

 

Nope.  No visible "delta", and the throat goes past 6 o'clock.    

Conor, that's a  beautiful photograph. 

[GeorgeH]

Stradivari's secret was a cucumber?

[FoxMitchell]

So Amati was in his vegetable garden one day and saw a little spiral like that and thought "that shape would be great at the end of this new instrument I'm making!" ?   

[Conor Russell]

I thought it was worth showing.

Like Martin, I thought it was simply glorious.

[Daniel P.N]

Beautiful pic Conor!
 

12 hours ago, Martin McClean said:

I know a true scientist who could explain the science without diminishing the miracle.  I'm just humbled and impressed.

Whas he talking about Mandelbrot? There is a whole thing about explaining nature design with Mandelbrot fractals (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fractal_Geometry_of_Nature)

Its the first thing i think about every time a see a scroll, Mandelbrot fractals, its like scrolls made of scrolls that are made of scrolls:

[Rue]

3 hours ago, Conor Russell said:

I thought it was worth showing.

Like Martin, I thought it was simply glorious.

It is beautiful.

All joking aside - it is so nice to be able to take a moment to just appreciate nature's miracles .