Add new petals where there are gaps between old petals.

A rose's petals are very delicate.

like small wood sticks and petals.

The petals are floating on the water.

Open Death Blossom petals. Switch is on.

The petals of this rose are very tender.

Seung Jo can you spread out the petals?

You put out 3 petals before you go back around.

Thank you. So this is a unit with the 12 petals.

Each layer adds 5 new petals and the 5 arms spiral out.

What if you combine the petals and the engine in the center?

Then the petals will move into position, and the engine will start.

Fibonacci is even in the arrangement of the petals on this rose.

These petals cost about a dollar each they're lightweight, injection molded plastic, aluminized.

Ideally you'd have a rule that just let's you add petals until you get bored.

So we can control all 12 of these petals for under 50 dollars and what this would allow us to do is not have to move the focus any more, but only move the petals.

We looked at a way to break up a parabola into individual petals that would track.

A critical part that we can take advantage of is that we have these inexpensive microprocessors and each of these petals is autonomous, and each of these petals figures out where the sun is with no user setup.

If I started with skinnier petals though the second time you go around it doesn't quite overlap so much and it takes 8 petals before it goes around twice and they overlap enough for you to see the spirals.

It looks like cherry blossom viewing season is at an end. You can see the petals fluttering down.

One simple way to doodle a flowers is to start with a certain number of petals, say 5.

The petals track and the engine gets the concentrated sunlight, takes that heat and turns it into electricity.

This is the first test where we took it outside and each of the petals were individually seeking.

It would also be a good way to give lots of room to see pods and petals and stuff.

You can try doing this precisely starting with some number of petals, say 5, then add another layer in between.

This is what the first prototype of our system looked like with the petals and the engine in the center.

What's the name of this flower with serrated petals? I tried looking it up in a encyclopedia, but I couldn't get anything.

When the sun comes out in the morning, the petals will seek the sun, find it by searching for the highest temperature.

And if I make them really wide the next lap adds 3 petals that overlap a bunch with the first, and so on...

So what you see here is 12 separate petals that each could be controlled with individual microprocessors that would only cost a dollar.

Say you're me and you're in math class and you're doodling a flowery petaly things, if you want something with lots of overlapping petals you're probably following a loose sort of rule that goes something like this