The spiral has been produced for thousands of years in the shape of the nautulis shell, the arrangement of sunflower seeds in the sunflower, among various other natural phenomena. In mathematics, Descartes was the first to discover the equiangular spiral formula around the middle of 17th century. The spiral was further studied by Torricelli and Jacques Bernoulli, later in the 17th century. Today, the spiral is still studied, and is still reproduced in nature. Although, now days the spiral is studied with computers.
People don t have to spend much time on the curve to find what they are looking for.
This has given actual applications to the spiral, mainly persuit curves. Pursuit curves Four lizards are on the corners of a square. Each one starts to chase its neighbor to the right. They all start at the same time and pursue at the same speed. This can also be done with three animals and the pattern that is traced is also an equiangular spiral .