The Kremlin had invested $22bn in preparing for that 2012 event - far more than most countries spend to hold the Olympic Games - mainly to re-invigorate the sagging infrastructure of Vladivostok, a city of 600,000 seven time-zones ahead of Moscow, and to turn the city's once almost inaccessible Russky Island into a world-class conference venue.
The Golden Spiral is derived from the âgolden rectangleâ, which is a unique rectangle having the golden ratio. The mystical Golden Spiral and Golden Ratio are to be found throughout Nature. In fact, they are present everywhere in the universe. From the curve of the human ear, to the human bone structure, to the growth pattern of leaves and flowers, to the spirals of a nautilus seashell or to the spirals of galaxies.
The unique properties of the Golden Rectangle provides another example. This shape, a rectangle in which the ratio of the sides a/b is equal to the golden mean (phi), can result in a nesting process that can be repeated into infinity â and which takes on the form of a spiral.