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The Phyllotaxis path effect applied to a sample shape
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Phyllotaxis

Place dots at the 137.5 degree divergence of a sunflower head, which is how a pine cone, a botanical diagram or generative dot art packs.

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Parameters5 adjustable
On canvas handlesno, adjust it in the panel
Destructiveno, the original path is kept
LicenceFree for commercial use

The 5 controls

Nothing here is baked in. Every value stays live on the object for as long as the file exists, so you can come back and retune it, reorder it against other effects, or take it off and get your original path back exactly as you drew it.

  1. Count1 to 2000, default 200
  2. Angle°1 to 360, default 137.5
  3. Spacing0.5 to 40, default 6
  4. Dot r0.3 to 30, default 3
  5. SizeUniform, Grow out, Grow in

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