Rp2.docx

Mark Joshua A. Marcos

July 02, 2018

CON-1A – M/W 11:30am-1:00pm

Prof. Julie Valencia

Reflection Paper #2 Pattern Pattern is the shape of life. What does it mean? I believe that God’s create the universe to acknowledge Him as a powerful artist, mathematician and creator. The whole thing on this Creation was incredibly perfect and supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. We observe that in our everyday life there are many kinds of patterns.

In visual art, pattern consists in regularity which in some way "organizes surfaces or structures in a consistent, regular manner." At its simplest, a pattern in art may be a geometric or other repeating shape in a painting, drawing, tapestry, ceramic tiling or carpet, but a pattern need not necessarily repeat exactly as long as it provides some form or organizing "skeleton" in the artwork. In mathematics, a tessellation is the tiling of a plane using one or more geometric shapes (which mathematicians call tiles), with no overlaps and no gaps. Other examples, in our clothes there’s a mechanism of pattern in textile fibers even in the foam of soap bubbles there’s a patterns occur widely in nature, which require films to be smooth and continuous, and to have a constant average curvature accordingly in Plateau's laws. Waves are disturbances that carry energy as they move. Mechanical waves propagate through a medium – air or water, making it oscillate as they pass by. Wind waves are surface waves that create the chaotic patterns of the sea. As they pass over sand, such waves create patterns of ripples; similarly, as the wind passes over sand, it creates patterns of dunes. Cracks form in materials to relieve stress: with 120 degree joints in elastic materials, but at 90 degrees in inelastic materials. Thus the pattern of cracks indicates whether the material is elastic or not. Cracking patterns are widespread in nature, for example in rocks, mud, tree bark and the glazes of old paintings and ceramics.

Nature provides examples of many kinds of pattern, including symmetries, trees

and other structures with a fractal dimension, spirals, meanders, cracks and stripes. Symmetry is widespread in living things. Animals that move usually have bilateral or mirror symmetry as this favors movement. Plants often have radial or rotational symmetry, as do many flowers, as well as animals which are largely static as adults, such as sea anemones. Fivefold symmetry is found in the echinoderms, including starfish, sea urchins, and sea lilies. Among non-living things, snowflakes have striking six-fold symmetry: each flake is unique, its structure recording the varying conditions during its crystallization similarly on each of its six arms. Crystals have a highly specific set of possible crystal symmetries; they can be cubic or octahedral, but cannot have fivefold symmetry. Spiral patterns are found in the body plans of animals including mollusks such as the nautilus, and in the phyllotaxis of many plants, both of leaves spiraling around stems, and in the multiple spirals found in flower heads such as the sunflower and fruit structures like the pineapple.

Everything on this world is a form of abstracts that can formulate in patterns. In the broadest sense, any regularity that can be explained by a scientific theory is a pattern. As in mathematics, science can be taught as a set of patterns. Patterns are everywhere…