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Patterns In Nature : A Web Resource List
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What Is A pattern In Nature: from my own web site
http://www.freshvista.com/2011/what-is-a-pattern-in-nature/
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The Earth’s Most Stunning Fractal Patterns – from Wired Magazine
https://www.wired.com/2010/09/fractal-patterns-in-nature/
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National Geographic’s Dazzling Video of a Glowworm Cave in New Zealand
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/photography/video-glowworm-cave-new-zealand/
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A Beautiful 3 Minute Video Essay on Patterns In Nature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_CaCie8R4U
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Patterns In Nature and the Mathematics Behind Them — a very nice set of slides on the subject thatr might be useful to environmental educators.
http://itech.fgcu.edu/faculty/pfeng/research/Pattern.pdf
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How To: Photograph Patterns in Nature – Through a camera and your contemplative soul, take the time to look around and study Nature’s intimate details, and you’ll see Her infinite variety of patterns
http://www.popphoto.com/how-to/2011/06/how-to-photograph-patterns-nature-0
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The Hypnotic Effect of Sunflower Patterns
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A Great Lesson Set on Patterns In Nature — for environmental educators
http://www.missmaggie.org/mission4_parts/eng/teaching/pdfs/mathinnature.pdf
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The Fibonacci numbers are Nature’s numbering system. They appear everywhere in Nature, from the leaf arrangement in plants, to the pattern of the florets of a flower, the bracts of a pinecone, or the scales of a pineapple.
http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/emat6680/parveen/fib_nature.htm
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Beauty:Patterns In Nature — Lesson Sets
http://www.pbs.org/thebotanyofdesire/lesson-plan-beauty.php
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Pattern Formation in Nature from Princeton University
http://www.theshapeofmath.com/princeton/dynsys/pattern
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Nature’s Unifying Patterns
http://toolbox.biomimicry.org/core-concepts/natures-unifying-patterns/
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How can a pattern produce life? The intelligence that emerges from Adrian Bejan’s Constructal Theory has the ability to and adapt to its environment. It explains how complex behavior can emerge from the behavior of networks. We may find answers to these questions and more hidden within the branches of the Constructal Pattern.
http://hplusmagazine.com/2014/03/20/information-becoming-aware-of-itself/
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Visual explorations of the relationship of patterns in flowers and their relationship to other forms seen in the physical and natural world.
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My name is Bill Graham. As a Marine Biologist who has worked in the US and Mexico for 30 years, I am a student of Nature, a teacher, a researcher, and a nature photographer. Through my work, I have acquired an ever growing passion for how everything in Nature is connected. Today, I travel extensively contemplating about, writing about, and photographing Nature’s connections. I also work with conservation projects in the USA and Mexico and mentor talented youth.
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