Pleasing patterns, in art and in nature. ... But he spent 10 years consciously refining his pouring technique to increase the visual complexity of these fractal patterns.

The Science Behind Nature’s Patterns. A new book explores the physical and chemical reasons behind incredible visual structures in the living and non-living world ...

But Croll stresses that there are multiple ways to create structures in nature, even things that at first glance don’t look like they’ll be good for patterns at all. An example is a type of ...

His beautiful coffee table book, Patterns in Nature: Why The Natural World Looks The Way It Does (University of Chicago Press, 2017), takes a fascinating and in-depth look into why and how natural ...

Mathematical patterns reveal profound truths about the universe and, surprisingly, about our inner lives as well. These five visual math concepts offer unique frameworks for understanding our ...

The reason patterns often appear in nature is simple: The same basic physical or chemical processes occur in many patterned substances and organisms as they form. Whether in plants and animals or ...

Visual patterns can be seen everywhere — if you pay attention. Nature repeats itself, and man-made things are mass produced copies of themselves. You may see patterns in architectural elements such as ...

His beautiful coffee table book, Patterns in Nature: Why The Natural World Looks The Way It Does (University of Chicago Press, 2017), takes a fascinating and in-depth look into why and how natural ...

The colors and patterns to mix in your design. Plan on sticking with a color palette throughout the room. A good place to start is with the 60-30-10 approach, with 60% of the room in a main color ...

Patterns of chemical interactions are thought to create patterns in nature such as stripes and spots. This new study shows that the mathematical basis of these patterns also governs how sperm tail ...

Artists intuit the appeal of fractals. It's therefore not surprising to learn that, as visual experts, artists have been embedding fractal patterns in their works through the centuries and across ...