Benjamin Adric Dunn, a data scientist at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, shows me a picture of unevenly spaced dots arranged vaguely like the rocks at Stonehenge. The overall ...

Simple patterns can be found almost everywhere in the environment, from drain covers to leaves and road markings, say Julie Mountain and Felicity Robinson Patterns are essential to building ...

A new book by Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy challenges the notion that mathematics and art occupy separate worlds. In ...

Here we have a square, a circle and a triangle. We're going to use them to form a pattern. This is the pattern formed by the shapes.

A new initiative pieced together by the National Quilt Museum, along with professors at Murray State University, is using the ...

If you’re a child of the ’80s or ’90s, chances are you’ve spent hours tracing out intricate patterns using the pens and gears of a Spirograph kit. Simple as those parts may be, they’re actually a very ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Honeycombs, some bathroom floors and designs by artist M.C. Escher have something in common: they ...

During family dinner, we have a tradition. Everyone has to summarize their day by describing three good events and, if necessary, one bad event. When my turn arrived at a recent dinner, I turned to my ...