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 ...

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 ...

If the water is freezing on a windowpane, for example, small and random imperfections on the glass surface redirect the stacking and create the larger pattern. Ice crystals on an old window in Norway.

In nature, a giraffe's coloring is an example of a tiling pattern. But what makes these natural patterns form? A new University of Arizona study uses bacteria to understand how tiles and ...

In nature, patterns of chemical interactions between two different substances are believed to govern the designs our eyes see—for example, a zebra’s stripes.These stripey designs are governed ...

Why does nature create patterns? A physicist explains the molecular-level processes behind crystals, stripes and basalt columns By Maxim Lavrentovich , University of Tennessee Sep 19, 2022 ...