This document discusses several types of natural patterns including symmetry, trees and fractals, spirals, waves and dunes, bubbles and foam, tessellation, cracks, and spots and stripes. Symmetry refers to shapes that are the same on both sides of a central dividing line. Trees are natural fractals that repeat smaller copies of themselves. Spirals form circular patterns around a central point. Waves and dunes create repeating curves like crescents and parabolas in bodies of water and from wind. Bubbles and foam are spheres that form volumes with spaces containing smaller bubbles. Tessellation involves shapes that fit together without gaps. Cracks form fractal patterns as objects dry and expand. Spots and
This document discusses several types of natural patterns including symmetry, trees and fractals, spirals, waves and dunes, bubbles and foam, tessellation, cracks, and spots and stripes. Symmetry refers to shapes that are the same on both sides of a central dividing line. Trees are natural fractals that repeat smaller copies of themselves. Spirals form circular patterns around a central point. Waves and dunes create repeating curves like crescents and parabolas in bodies of water and from wind. Bubbles and foam are spheres that form volumes with spaces containing smaller bubbles. Tessellation involves shapes that fit together without gaps. Cracks form fractal patterns as objects dry and expand. Spots and
This document discusses several types of natural patterns including symmetry, trees and fractals, spirals, waves and dunes, bubbles and foam, tessellation, cracks, and spots and stripes. Symmetry refers to shapes that are the same on both sides of a central dividing line. Trees are natural fractals that repeat smaller copies of themselves. Spirals form circular patterns around a central point. Waves and dunes create repeating curves like crescents and parabolas in bodies of water and from wind. Bubbles and foam are spheres that form volumes with spaces containing smaller bubbles. Tessellation involves shapes that fit together without gaps. Cracks form fractal patterns as objects dry and expand. Spots and
both sides. A shape has symmetry if a central dividing line (a mirror line) Trees and Fractals Trees are natural fractals, patterns that repeat smaller and smaller copies of themselves to create the biodiversity of a forest. Spirals A spiral pattern would be described as a circular pattern beginning at a center point and circling around the center point as the pattern moves outward. Waves and Dunes Waves and Dunes are repeating curves of many types like crescents, parabolas, domes and water falls. Wind waves are sea surface waves that create the characteristic chaotic pattern of any large body of water Bubbles and Foam Bubbles and foams are patterns in nature that are formed from repeating spheres. Foams are a volume of bubbles of many sizes, where the spaces between each larger bubble contain smaller bubbles. Tessellation A form of patterns found in nature.A pattern of one or more shapes that fit together with no gaps or overlap like honeycomb or the diamond-shaped Cracks Tree bark or dry land, here from an old cottonwood and drying land forms fractal cracking patterns as the expands that object. Spots and Stripes the form of spots and stripes result from a chemical phenomenon called the reaction-diffusion effect.