Nature's patterns: a tapestry in three parts

[v. 1]. Shapes

[v. 2]. Flow

[v. 3]. Branches.

[V. 1.] Shapes : The shapes of things: pattern and form Lessons of the beehive: building with bubbles Making waves: stripes in a test tube Written on the body: hiding, warning, and mimicking Rhythms of the wild: crustal communities How does your garden grow?: the mathematics of a daisy Unfolding the embryo: the formation of body plans Appendices : 1. Soap-film structures 2. Oscillating chemical reaction 3. Chemical waves in the BZ reaction 4. Liesegang bands

[V. 2.] Flow :The man who loved fluids: Leonardo's legacy Patterns downstream: ordered flows On a roll: how convection shapes the world Riddle of the dunes: when grains get together Follow your neighbour: flocks, swarms, and crowds Into the maelstrom: the trouble with turbulence Appendices : 1. Bénard convection 2. Grain stratification in a Makse cell

[V. 3.] Branches : A winter's tale: the six-pointed snowflake

Tenuous monsters: shapes between dimensions

Just for the crack: clean breaks and ragged ruptures

Water ways: labyrinths in the landscape

Tree and leaf: branches in biology

Web worlds: why we're all in this together

Epilogue: The threads of the tapestry: principles of pattern

Appendix : The Hele-Shaw cell.