Some animals carry patterns so precise and mathematically exact that scientists struggle to explain how nature produced them ...

Jay Bonner’s new book on Islamic geometric patterns is as dense and thick (595 pages) as the thorniest of textbooks, but the hundreds of illustrations and the immersion in this topic are simply ...

Kirigami is a traditional Japanese art form that entails cutting and folding paper to produce complex three-dimensional (3D) structures or objects. Over the past decades, this creative practice has ...

Islamic architecture has long been celebrated for its intricate use of geometry, manifest in the repeated interplay of symmetry, proportion and rhythm. At its core lies a system of rules governing the ...

African-inspired quilt patterns are making waves in the world of modern textile design. These vibrant, geometric patterns, ...

A database, collecting and classifying tile-like patterns in biology, aims to be a resource and research catalyst. The human eye is drawn to the rhythmic beauty of tiled patterns, which occur ...

Ostrich eggs are huge. Big enough, in fact, for ancient humans to use them as primitive writing surfaces for showcasing their mathematical prowess, according to a new study. The paper, published ...