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

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.

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.

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

Parents analyze structure and function in objects from nature during interactive keynote STEM workshop for parents 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.

Quaking Aspen, Populus tremuloides, forest of bare branches along beginning of Wheeler Peak Summit Trail in Great Basin National Park, Nevada, USA

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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....

GrfxDziner.com | Blogger gwennie2006:

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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the Joshua Tree, from gwennie2006...

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Patterns of rocks and snowfields near Hawkeye Point in the Goat Rocks Wilderness, Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Cascade Mountains, Washington State, USA, September, Goat_Rocks-575

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

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.

[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

Inspiring patterns found in nature. © Dawn Clarkson

Ge digital camera

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

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

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

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.

Expanding Your Horizons Conference UNF, 2011.

Oriental Bittersweet, Celastrus orbiculatus, an invasive vine twisting toward forest canopy, Woodland Park and Nature Preserve, Battle Creek, Michigan, USA

Victoria Street, Manchester.

Best seen on black: press L to view.

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/