His first book, published in 1999 (The Self-Made Tapestry), and a trilogy, published in 2009 (Nature’s Patterns: Shapes, Flow, Branches), explore the subject of natural patterns, but neither has ...

Nature is full of patterns. Among them are tiling patterns, which mimic what you'd see on a tiled bathroom floor, characterized by both tiles and interfaces -- such as grout -- in between.

Patterns abound in nature, from zebra stripes and leopard spots to honeycombs and bands of clouds. Somehow, these patterns form and organize all by themselves. To better understand how ...

A leopard is chasing a zebra, bound to follow the laws of nature and natural selection, ... Professor discusses symmetry, patterns in nature. December 10, 2015; Francis Pellicciaro; ...

Alan Newell of the University of Arizona will give the talk, "The Universal Nature of Fibonacci Patterns," on Friday, Feb. 18 at the 2011 AAAS annual meeting at the Washington Convention Center in ...

This weekend, the Franklin Institute opens its summer exhibition about mathematical patterns that recur in nature. Its centerpiece is a 1,700-square-foot maze of mirrors, set in a grid of equilateral ...

These three figures illustrate the three different patterns of dispersion that ecologists observe. Clumped dispersion (Figure 1) where individuals are aggregated in certain areas of the sampled space.

Nature features breathtaking patterns. Now, physicists based in China have found a way to recreate these natural motifs in 3-D -- using just a little electricity.