Parametric Golden Spiral Snowflake

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This is another one of my designs for the BlocksCAD Snowflake competition. I wanted to design one that used a module I created previously for generating a Golden Spiral, so this is what I ended up with. I've also included a few different variations of disabling parts of the snowflake, like the radial lines, the outer circle or even both, which I think creates some very interesting results. Again, like all my snowflakes, this is totally parametric, so you can adjust all the values for radius, linewidth, height and level of detail of the spirals. Changing the level of detail can create some interesting shapes, and can change the style of the snowflake from a 4K high-definition spiral all the way down to a low-poly 144p style. This snowflake is calculated using multiple constants in the BlocksCAD program itself, like pi and Phi, and I was dismayed to discover that the value for pi in the code only goes up to 5 decimal places, unlike Phi, which has its own equation (and yes, I do know that you can't calculate pi with a finite equation, I just think they could try a little harder than 5 decimals ;) ) Note: this snowflake is coloured gold for the symbolism, not yellow. Never eat yellow snow.