Patterns

On Tuesday we looked at universal patterns and shapes in nature. Look at the pine cone. Can you see the natural spiral direction of the shoots? Pineapples and sunflowers are the same, in fact all natural elements contain some sort of pattern. We did a scavenger hunt in the garden to find growing examples of a few of these patterns: tessolations, crenolations, branching, exploding, lobes, streamline, packing. We then aranged the examples by category in a circle to compare eachothers findings.

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"Art Forms in Nature" by Ernst Haeckel

-Matt