Simple patterns can be found almost everywhere in the environment, from drain covers to leaves and road markings, say Julie Mountain and Felicity Robinson Patterns are essential to building ...

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Trees depicted in the artwork of famous painters like Leonardo da Vinci and Piet Mondrian follow the math behind their branching pattern in nature, a new study says. This hidden math in some abstract ...

Sandy Hetherington receives funding for this research from a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship MR/T018585/1 and a Royal Society Research Grant RGS\R2\212063. Holly-Anne Turner does ...

New research sheds light on how a certain kind of pattern in nature arises. Nature is full of patterns. Among them are tiling patterns, which mimic what you'd see on a tiled bathroom floor, ...