Nature creates incredible works of living art through its many different animal patterns, such as a leopard’s spots or a ...

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 366, No. 9 (SEPTEMBER 2014), pp. 4969-4986 (18 pages) We consider the integrodifferential equation ${\partial ...

Background - Diatoms are unicellular algae, prolific in nearly all aqueous environments on earth. They are encased between two siliceous valves that each feature a variety of intricately patterned ...

Using a new computer model, scientists simulated the stripes, spots and hexagons on a species of boxfish, imperfections and ...

[Jason] was messing around with CNC machines and came up with his own halftone CNC picture that might be an improvement over previous attempts we’ve seen. He immediately recognized the algorithm that ...

There are many purposes that spots and stripes serve in nature, but how they form has been more of a mystery to scientists.