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 ...

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 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 ...

Science and nature journalist Philip Ball looks below the surface at how and why certain forms appear in nature. Patterns in Nature explores world's chaotic beauty Skip to main content ...

What I find fascinating about the interrelation between cognitive fluctuations, mind wandering, and fractal patterns in art and nature is that they tend to be good for us in a uniquely playful way.

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 ...

His drawings also make visual connections in a way that photographs would be hard-pressed to – between a moun tain range and a river, or a swirling galaxy and bulrushes in a field of tall grass. We ...

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 ...