: What is the divergence of a golden spiral using the spiral tool in Inkscape I'm using inkscape and am wanting to quickly be able to generate arbitrary golden ratio spirals, but am having trouble

@BetL875

I was unable to generate accurate golden ratio spirals with the spiral tool. Instead I found a way to quickly generate them through parametric curves.

Create a square by pressing CTRL while using the rectangle/square tool.
With the square selected, navigate in the menu to Extensions -> Render -> Parametric Curves ...
Enter these values

Start t-value: 0
End t-value: 4.1
Checked -> Multiply t-range by 2*pi
X-value of rectangle's left: -1000
X-value of rectangle's right: 1000
Y-value of rectangle's bottom: -1000
Y-value of rectangle's top: 1000
Samples: 300
X-Function: pow(((1+sqrt(5))/2),2*t/pi)*cos(t)
Y-Function: pow(((1+sqrt(5))/2),2*t/pi)*sin(t)


I usually have Remove rectangle checked, and Draw Axes unchecked.
Click Apply.

Credit to ragstian from this Inkscape Forum post: www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=13427&start=25

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