The Art of Science

Stunning natural and man-made patterns.

http://www.princeton.edu/artofscience/gallery2011/index.php%3Fp=1.html

Patterns of Movement

This is some very interesting research regarding patterns of movement in natural and virtual environments by Patrick Laube in Zurich, Switzerland.
http://www.geo.uzh.ch/~plaube/

I would imagine the shape of the "terrain" must influence movement pattterns quite significantly.

Pattern Makers as Copycats of Nature?

What does it mean to make something? When we make a pattern out of some materials, aren't we just recreating a pattern that already exists in our physical world, in nature? Are pattern makers really just copycats? We are, but there's something more to our abilities...we can arrange and rearrange patterns to result in entirely new configurations.

Thoughts of Biomimicry...

Harmonic Resonance Theory

http://www.miqel.com/jazz_music_heart/vibrational-truth.html

Fascinating theory by Steven Lehar....
http://sharp.bu.edu/~slehar/webstuff/hr1/hr2.html
It struck me this morning that in a world filled with standing and travelling wave fields, there is no such thing as one of anything, just greater and lesser variations of peaks and troughs within a defined field.

Superlattice Turing Patterns

Quite extraordinary!

"The study of pattern formation in nonequilibrium reaction-diffusion systems began with the theoretical analysis of Turing structures, which are stationary, spatially periodic patterns resulting from the interplay between pure diffusion and nonlinear reaction kinetics. Turing suggested that such structures could play a role in morphogenesis, and his point of view has gradually become prominent. The first experimental observation of Turing patterns occurred nearly 40 years after Turing's work, in a chemical reaction-diffusion system. Later, Kondo and collaborators showed that skin patterns in various small fish also develop according to the Turing mechanism."

- Dr. Lingfa Yang

http://hopf.chem.brandeis.edu/yanglingfa/pattern/ptn.html

Pattern in a Pattern

The sephirot pattern fits beautifully inside the Flower of Life pattern. Coincidence? I think, most likely, not.

Transient Equilibrium

Everything around us, and everything inside of us, is always moving, transitioning from one state to another. A steady-state is reached, and then another transition is underway, striving towards yet another steady-state, and yet another state of transient equilibrium. It continues. Life evolving.

My recent studies of sacred geometry (The Flower of Life) have me considering geometric structures as patterns of equilibrium that are never quite reached or held for long in a world that is always shimmering with movement. It's as if physical matter aspires to realize these configurations, perhaps because they are economical, and cost the least amount of energy.

There are certain arrangements, certain configurations that are more optimal for the form of physical structures. Why? Because they represent a state of equilibrium that is balanced amongst oppositional forces? This is beginning to sound very much like chemistry...

Flower of Life 6 shown above is by Peter W. Michel

http://www.petermichel.com/About.html