Nature's patterns : a tapestry in three parts / Philip Ball.

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Main Author: Ball, Philip, 1962-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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500 |a "Nature's patterns is a trilogy composed of Shapes, Flow, and Branches." 
500 |a Rev. and expanded version of: The self-made tapestry : pattern formation in nature. 1999. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
505 0 |a [V. 1.] Shapes : The shapes of things: pattern and form -- Lessons of the beehive: building with bubbles -- Making waves: stripes in a test tube -- Written on the body: hiding, warning, and mimicking -- Rhythms of the wild: crustal communities -- How does your garden grow?: the mathematics of a daisy -- Unfolding the embryo: the formation of body plans -- Appendices : 1. Soap-film structures -- 2. Oscillating chemical reaction -- 3. Chemical waves in the BZ reaction -- 4. Liesegang bands -- 
505 0 |a [V. 2.] Flow :The man who loved fluids: Leonardo's legacy -- Patterns downstream: ordered flows -- On a roll: how convection shapes the world -- Riddle of the dunes: when grains get together -- Follow your neighbour: flocks, swarms, and crowds -- Into the maelstrom: the trouble with turbulence -- Appendices : 1. Bénard convection -- 2. Grain stratification in a Makse cell -- 
505 0 |a [V. 3.] Branches : A winter's tale: the six-pointed snowflake -- Tenuous monsters: shapes between dimensions -- Just for the crack: clean breaks and ragged ruptures -- Water ways: labyrinths in the landscape -- Tree and leaf: branches in biology -- Web worlds: why we're all in this together -- Epilogue: The threads of the tapestry: principles of pattern -- Appendix : The Hele-Shaw cell. 
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