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Patterns in nature

Patterns in nature are visible regularities of form found in the natural world. These patterns recur in different contexts and can sometimes be modelled mathematically. Natural patterns include symmetries, trees, spirals, meanders, waves, foams, tessellations, cracks and stripes. Early Greek philosophers studied pattern, with Plato, Pythagoras and…

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Patterns in nature

Nodes365
Edges364
Triples54
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.005479
Components1

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related to history · 36
Patterns in nature → AD, Adolf Zeising, Alexander Braun's, Auguste Bravais, BC, Centuries, Charles Bonnet, Cyrus, Darwin's, Early Greek, Elder, Empedocles, English, Fibonacci, German, He, In, Johannes Kepler, Karl Friedrich Schimper, Leonardo
has cause · 6
Patterns in nature → For, L-systems, Living, Mathematics, The, Visual
related to Chaos, flow, meanders · 5
Patterns in nature → Alongside, In, Some, Stephen Wolfram's Rule, There

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patterns nature symmetry form pattern growth like waves cracks natural mathematics fibonacci phyllotaxis spirals fractals plants animals spiral stripes different

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this queen sagoinstance ofcrystallising mathematical thought into the concept of the fractal.Fibonacci number patterns occur widely in plants0.80text
Cycas circinalis.Beijing's National Aquatics Center for the 2008 Olympic games has a Weaireinstance ofcrystallising mathematical thought into the concept of the fractal.Fibonacci number patterns occur widely in plants0.80text
dislocationsinstance ofa crystal is perfect when it has no structural defects0.80text
is fully symmetricinstance ofa crystal is perfect when it has no structural defects0.80text
beesinstance ofand patterns of insect-pollinated flowers like the lily have evolved to attract insects0.80text
orchidsinstance ofas do the leaves of plants and some flowers0.80text
sea anemonesinstance ofas do many flowers and some groups of animals0.80text
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Patterns in naturehas causeThe0.60section
Patterns in naturehas causeMathematics0.60section
Patterns in naturehas causeVisual0.60section
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