The Patterns
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Spirals are curves that start from a center point and get further and further away as they circle around that point. They can be found in pinecones, pineapples and hurricanes. A logarithmic spiral is a special type of spiral where the distance between each turn of the spiral is progressively larger than the one before it, as in a nautilus shell.