![]() We see the same forms repeated in all different aspects of the natural world the Amazon River branches itself out like veins in a body, or like a struck of lightning. Shapes and patterns in nature keep repeating themselves. ![]() Ball is writing about Thompson's findings and filling in his shortcomings with the new discoveries found with new technologies, often through computer simulations. The writings are based on the book “On Growth and Form” by D’Arcy Thompson, first release in 1917, second edition in 1942. After realising it was still in high demand, and at a higher price, when it went out of print, Ball decided to rewrite and reorganise the book to be more accessible and made it into a trilogy Shapes, Flows and Branches. ![]() Philip Ball wrote a book in 1999 called “The Self Made Tapestry Pattern Formation in Nature”. Natures Patterns, a tapestry in three parts ![]()
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