Parents observe and analyze pill bugs during the interactive STEM keynote workshop conducted by Dr. Diana Wehrell-Grabowski.

Seven to nine year olds discover mathematical patterns found in sunflowers, pine cones, and throughout nature while learning about a famous mathematician and exploring the Enchanted Garden. Held at the HCLS Miller Branch.

Sea urchin test (shell) at Tongue Point in Salt Creek Recreation Area along the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, USA

Natural Yin Yang pattern in Monument Creek, Colorado

Painted Anemone, Urticina crassicornis, at Tongue Point in Salt Creek Recreation Area along the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, USA

Painting from the recent solo exhibition Chronocromie: The Colour of Time, held at the Air Gallery, London in October 2010.

See more work at www.marcocrivello.co.uk/

Bubbles, created in winter by the photographer, rapidly form ice crystals on the inside surfaces, Michigan, USA,

Goose Barnacles, Pollicipes polymerus, on rocky habitat at Tongue Point in Salt Creek Recreation Area along the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, USA

Giant Kelp (Macrocystus integrifolia) leaves washed up on Shi Shi Beach, Olympic National Park, Washington State, USA, June, Point_of_Arches-82

White Oak, Quercus alba, leaf on Beaver pond with tree reflections in Woodland Park and Nature Preserve in Battle Creek, Michigan, USA

Sockeye Salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) visually transformed by ripples on the surface of the Adams River, during the biggest Sockeye Run in 100 years, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada, October, Adams_River_Sockeye_Salmon-951

Seven to nine year olds discover mathematical patterns found in sunflowers, pine cones, and throughout nature while learning about a famous mathematician and exploring the Enchanted Garden. Held at the HCLS Miller Branch.

Leaves in the creek at Dungay

Seven to nine year olds discover mathematical patterns found in sunflowers, pine cones, and throughout nature while learning about a famous mathematician and exploring the Enchanted Garden. Held at the HCLS Miller Branch.

Intricate boxwork in Wind Cave, a cave formation found here more than anywhere else, Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota, USA

Along the Rio Salado

Seven to nine year olds discover mathematical patterns found in sunflowers, pine cones, and throughout nature while learning about a famous mathematician and exploring the Enchanted Garden. Held at the HCLS Miller Branch.

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Shot at Lotus Pond, Hyderabad, at the time of sunset

Cleaning gastropod fossil from Fossil & Prairie Park Preserve, Rockford, Iowa, USA

Parents explore mathematical patterns in bubble formations during parent STEM workshop.

Incredible patterns of sand, including heavier black sand particles, on Rialto Beach in Olympic National Park, Washington State, USA

Dry desert land along California State Route 166, here call the Cuyama Highway, near the Carrizo Plain, with great clouds overhead, Southern California, USA

Parents observe and analyze pill bugs during the interactive STEM keynote workshop conducted by Dr. Diana Wehrell-Grabowski.

Cleaning a horn coral from Fossil & Prairie Park Preserve, Rockford, Iowa, USA

Wet Road, running water.

Closeup of juvenile California Gull (Larix occidentalis) feather found along Shi Shi Beach in Olympic National Park, Washington State, USA, June, Point_of_Arches-90

I wonder if these trees "know" on some level that they're supposed to be drab without their leaves?

Parents analyze structure and function in objects from nature during interactive keynote STEM workshop for parents conducted by Dr. Diana Wehrell-Grabowski.

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Giant Kelp (Macrocystus integrifolia) leaves washed up on Shi Shi Beach, Olympic National Park, Washington State, USA, June, Point_of_Arches-83

Automatic Download of 3-Page tutorial in .PDF format:

Functions of Form Part Four: Patterns in Nature | PDF file • GrfxDziner.com

Check out this blog from the

Deanna Cremin Memorial Foundation:

Function of Form • Patterns in Nature....

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http://gwennie2006.blogspot.com/2010/01/function-of-form-patterns-in-nature.html

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Some links for the Golden Proportions and related things. These ratios and proportions are everywhere in nature:

Fibonacci Numbers In Flowers and Nature

Fibonacci Numbers Wolfram Math World

Golden Spiral Relative to Fibonacci numbers

Golden Proportion Introduction

fiveprime.org/hivemind/Tags/FibonacciNumbers

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Lichen Caloplaca sp. (possibly Caloplaca ignea, Flame Lichen) making cryptic patterns on a rock along the Nub Peak Trail; Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada, Mount_Assiniboine_Lichens-6

Central Australia on SA border.

Dramatic tree-like patterns from the river systems flowing through the outback in Central Australia

Parents analyze structure and function in objects from nature during interactive keynote STEM workshop for parents conducted by Dr. Diana Wehrell-Grabowski.

[Cedrus deodara]

Foam in tannin-rich water below Laughing Whitefish Falls, Alger County, Michigan

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[Alnus hirsuta var. sibirica]. Birch family.

English Ivy

Closeup of juvenile California Gull (Larix occidentalis) feather found along Shi Shi Beach in Olympic National Park, Washington State, USA, June, Point_of_Arches-88