
Lenore, of Evil Mad Scientist Labs, glimpses the pattern that connects in a spool of monolithic capacitors:
These capacitors... exhibit the opposite spirals of phyllotaxis that are probably most familiar from the face of a sunflower. Who knew capacitors could be so lovely?
Electronic Phyllotaxis
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/04/capacitor_spool_phyllotax.html