MMW REVIEWER Pt 1

Is a structure, form, or design that is regular, consistent, or recurring.

Are often unpredictable, never quite repeatable, and often contain fractals.

Usually found in the water, stone, and even in the growth of trees.

In the human walk, the feet strike the ground in a regular rhythm: the left-right-left-right rhythm.

Is conceivably the most basic pattern in nature.

Is a quality of a certain object that we sense through touch.

Is a kind of pattern which consists of a series of shapes that are typically repeated.

Is any form of disturbance that carries energy as it moves.

Are formed by sand wind as they pass over the sand.

Are commonly present in in different organisms are results of a reaction-diffusion system.

Patterns on the skin of a giraffe

Patterns visible on the skin of a zebra

Exist on the scale of the cosmos to the minuscule forms of microscopic animals on earth.

Are also common and noticeable among plants and some animals.

It is used to classify and organize information about patterns by classifying the motion or deformation of both pattern structures and processes.

3 most important kinds of symmetry (less formally called flips, turns, and slides)

Capture symmetries when it still look the same after some rotation

Sometimes called line symmetry or mirror symmetry.

Exists in patterns that we see in nature and in man-made objects.