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• Patterns in nature


  • Symmetry
  • Fractals
  • Spiral
  • Tessellation
• Symmetry


  • Sense of harmonious and beautiful proportion of balance or an object is invariant to any various transformations (reflection, rotation or scaling)
• Bilateral or reflection symmetry


  The simplest kind of symmetry. It can also be called mirror symmetry because an object with this symmetry looks unchanged if a mirror passes through its middle.
• Radial symmetry


  Rotational symmetry around a fixed point known as the center. Images with more than one lines of symmetry meeting at a common point exhibits a radial symmetry.
• Fractals


  • Never-ending patterns. The beauty of fractals is that their infinite complexity is formed through the repetition of simple equations. These repeating patterns are displayed at every scale.
• Spiral


  A curved pattern that focuses on a center point and a series of circular shapes that revolve around it. Examples of spirals are pine cones, pineapples, hurricanes. The reason for why plants use a spiral form like the leaf picture below is because they are constantly trying to grow but stay secure.
• Tessellation


  A pattern of one or more shapes where the shapes do not overlap or have no space between.
• Nothing in nature happens without a reason, all of these patterns have an important reason to exist and they also happen to be beautiful to watch.