Nature provides examples of many kinds of pattern, including symmetries, trees and other structures with a fractal dimension, spirals, 展开

Mathematics is sometimes called the "Science of Pattern", in the sense of rules that can be applied wherever needed. For example, any sequence of numbers that may be modeled by a mathematical function can be considered a pattern. Mathematics can be … 展开

Tilings
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 展开

• Archetype
• Cellular automata
• Die (manufacturing) (template)
• Form constant
• Fractal 展开

In nature
• Adam, John A. Mathematics in Nature: Modeling Patterns in the Natural World. Princeton, 2006. 展开