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 nautilus shell is often shown as an illustration of the golden ratio in nature, but the spiral of a nautilus shell is NOT a golden spiral, as illustrated below. The golden spiral overlay is provided by PhiMatrix golden ratio software :Nautilus shell spiral compared to a Golden Spiral.he Fibonacci spiral gets closer and closer to a Golden Spiral as it increases in size because of the ratio of each number in the Fibonacci series to the one before it converges on Phi, 1.618, as the series progresses (e.g., 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 and 13 produce ratios of 1, 2, 1.5, 1.67, 1.6 and 1.625, respectively).