Talk:Patterns in nature

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October 19, 2012	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on May 8, 2012.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that patterns in nature like the spirals of Aloe (pictured) are explained by mathematics, physics, chemistry, and natural selection all at once?

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Geographic tongue

Some cases of geographic tongue display cellular-automaton-like patterns. Not sure if they are to be classified as waves or spirals (they are dynamic the pattern move on the tongue on a day to day basis, in this case not unlike the rocks paper scissors automaton youtu.be/M4cV0nCIZoc?t=17s (can't link sorry).

It's another example of that same kind of pattern, as you say. This isn't a list; the task of the article is to introduce the main kinds of pattern. Chiswick Chap (talk) 06:48, 3 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Man-made objects.

Including man-made examples may be off topic for this article. This sets precedence for other man-made objects to be included, bloating this article. I added the circus tent image to the "Minimal surface" article. Interesting that the "Beijing's National Aquatics Center for the 2008 Olympic games" is not mentioned in the "Weaire–Phelan structure" article. I have no issue with mentioning "Weaire–Phelan structure" just the inclusion of examples. This is an editor's point of view. User-duck (talk) 20:20, 7 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Well if you don't mind the article's mentioning the W-P structure then there really isn't much reason to complain about having it illustrated. And if you wish to labour the point, if human architects and engineers are interested enough in natural patterns to choose to put them all over large buildings, that is certainly a relevant matter for an article on those patterns. Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:33, 7 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Scope of the Article?

Should the article be retitled "Visual patterns in nature" or should the scope be expanded to non-visible natural patterns, such as those that occur thoughout time or in some way that must be sensed without sight? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:602:C680:2960:651B:E86A:4EC8:B05B (talk) 21:40, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]