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Hand-Drawn Coloring Book Reveals Mathematical Beauty Of Nature’s Designs With Golden Ratio Illustrations
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Hand-Drawn Coloring Book Reveals Mathematical Beauty Of Nature’s Designs With Golden Ratio Illustrations

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Rafael Araujo is a Venezuelan architect and illustrator. He uses nothing more than pencils, rulers, compass and protractors to create his incredibly beautiful and accurate reflections of Nature’s brilliance. Rafael’s illustrations highlight the recurrence throughout Nature of the “golden ratio”, represented by the Greek letter ϕ. Equal to approximately 1.618, the ϕ ratio lies at the heart of all manner of organic spirals, sequences and proportions – from the hypnotic whorls of the chambered nautilus shell to the balanced proportions of a butterfly’s wings.

Rafael’s work is unique in that he leaves intact the construction lines that form the mathematical framework for his illustrations, each of which can take him as long as 100 hours to complete. Recently Rafael has received requests for prints of his works to color in. From this came the idea to produce a beautiful coloring book with some of his best illustrations. To bring this project to life, Rafael and his team in Sydney created a Kickstarter campaign.

More info: kickstarter.com

Chambered Nautilus Shell

Fibonacci Shell

Blue Morpho Double Helix

Butterflies Infinite Sequence

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Phoebis, Triple Helix

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Butterflies Infinite Sequence

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Monarch Mirror Reflection

Shell Detail

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DNA Double Helix

Three Flat Spirals

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Blue Morpho Sequence

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Monarch, Triple Helix

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Diaethrea Sequence

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The Golden Ratio coloring book

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Back cover of the Golden Ratio coloring book

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Charlene Adams
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had an idea like this once but for the lifeof me could not put it to paper .Very nicely down. strange that we almost had the same vision

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TobiasVogel
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nice book. I found this on http://mustxhave.com/content/golden-ratio-coloring-book-malbuch-fur-erwachsene And right away I´ve ordered it! I`m so excited!

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MiklósNagy
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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Finally someone doesn't mix golden ratio with fibonacci numbers. Also: Holly s**t, this is an amazing work!

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melbfk
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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is phenomenal. Mr. Araujo, thank you for taking so much time to put your vision to paper and to create a book for us to enjoy whether we color it or not.

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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

@ Cloued: His work is magic!! @CP Moon: You can find more information about the book at bit.ly/rafaelaraujoart :) @ Unicorncat1010: Yes!! Stunningly beautiful. And the best thing about it is that it's all hand drawn!

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Charlene Adams
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had an idea like this once but for the lifeof me could not put it to paper .Very nicely down. strange that we almost had the same vision

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TobiasVogel
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nice book. I found this on http://mustxhave.com/content/golden-ratio-coloring-book-malbuch-fur-erwachsene And right away I´ve ordered it! I`m so excited!

miklosnagy avatar
MiklósNagy
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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Finally someone doesn't mix golden ratio with fibonacci numbers. Also: Holly s**t, this is an amazing work!

melbfk avatar
melbfk
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8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is phenomenal. Mr. Araujo, thank you for taking so much time to put your vision to paper and to create a book for us to enjoy whether we color it or not.

melindalinda avatar
Community Member
8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

@ Cloued: His work is magic!! @CP Moon: You can find more information about the book at bit.ly/rafaelaraujoart :) @ Unicorncat1010: Yes!! Stunningly beautiful. And the best thing about it is that it's all hand drawn!

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