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DID YOU KNOW?
In fact, the patterns of the natural world repeat and resemble each other! Take, for example:
spirals
(found on the shells of snails, but also in the shape of galaxies)
VEINS
(to rivers, from leaves, to our blood vessels)
STRIPES
(from zebras to angelfish)
Alan Turing, early 20th century mathematician and father of modern computing, suggested a mathematical model to explain the creation of patterns in nature
According to him, their formation is influenced by morphogenesis, a set of laws that will determine, as their name suggests, what organisms will look like when still in the embryonic stage.
Indeed, although nature may seem far removed from the world of mathematics, from the number pi, to the Fibonacci sequence, to fractals, it has been demonstrated that nature has a pretty important mathematical side!
In fact, it is argued that the size and spacing of natural patterns are determined according to the number pi; the romanesco cabbage is said to be able explain the natural growth of a rabbit population, but also represented in the pattern of a seashell; and fractals are said to explain the growth of plants with repetitive shapes such as the fascinating romanesco cabbage, as well as explain other natural phenomena such as heartbeat rhythms.
Clearly, although it may be hard to believe, nature leaves nothing to chance!
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Biolumen is a beautiful
blend of...
Art & Science & Biology
Have You Ever Thought About?:
The relationship between nature and mathematic.
Each cylindrical Biolumen module has a perforated outer layer. The patterns you see are directly inspired by those on the skeletons of radiolaria, the oceanic microorganisms that inspire this work.
Choose one or more of the Biolumen modules which bear your favorite motifs, then try to identify another motif of the natural world they remind you of.
(e.g.: scales on a snake's skin, honeycombs in a beehive, drupeoles on a raspberry, spots on a giraffe's coat, etc.).