Talk:Spiral

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[edit] Images

I'll be translating additional material from the German article de:Spirale. So as to add some nice illustrations to it, I've asked German Wikipedian de:Benutzer:Karl Bednarik if he would mind regenerating his contributed images, saved in PNG format (more appropriate for line-art). I'll use the GFDL'd JPGs otherwise. Hooloovoo 13:22, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Any progress on that? - RoyBoy ⁸⁰⁰ 02:50, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Apparently not. Hooloovoo hasn't been back to Wikipedia since May 1, 2005. Angr/talk 10:11, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Does there really have to be a pop culture section with two entries? One of them a manga? I took it out for now ~ sorry, no account

[edit] Right versus left-handed

Perhaps a section dealing with right verus left handed spirals should be considered? --Seans Potato Business 19:39, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 3d spiral

Is there a name and equation for a sperical 3d spiral, one that would result if a spiral were drawn on a plane surface that was at the same time rotating? The result would llok like a neatly made ball of string of ever increasing diameter. Just as a spiral as it develops increases the area it "occupies" or "encloses" on a plane surface, so would this spiral/helix "occupy" or "enclose" an ever-increasing volume in space. I should imagine that if the rate of rotation of the plane surface on which the spiral is drawn was the same as the rate at which the spiral is drawn, then the result would approximate to a sphere, otherwise to a lozenge or 3d eliptical solid (or whatever it may be called).--Philogo 13:00, 23 May 2008 (UTC)