The Self-made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature

by PhilipBall (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1998

  $27.65

  This text explains how nature's patterns - the markings on animals, windblown ripples of sand, the forms of water in motion - are woven by self-organization, through simple, local interactions between their component parts. The products of self-organization are universal patterns: spirals, spots and stripes, branches and honeycombs.