Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...

Join a hands-on pattern-making workshop led by Dan Funderburgh, featured in Sketching the Surface: Exploring the New York School of Interior Design Archives and Contemporary Pattern Design.

Remember the graph paper you used at school, the kind that’s covered with tiny squares? It’s the perfect illustration of what mathematicians call a “periodic tiling of space”, with shapes covering an ...

A seamlessly-repeating pattern fill can be an attractive background for your company website as well as fliers, business cards and other documents. Creating such a pattern can however be quite tricky ...

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