SOME correspondence appeared in NATURE in 1938 about the phenomenon described by Brewster 1, which is obtained by focusing on a surface covered by a repeating pattern while converging on a point ...

Surface tessellations are an arrangement of shapes which are tightly fitted, and form repeat patterns on a surface without overlapping. Imagine the pattern of a giraffe's fur, the shell of a tortoise ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. This month the Australian interior designer Greg Natale publishes his second book, The Patterned Interior. Natale is ...

The Architects’ Alphabet is a 26-part series describing design elements featured in Gregory J. Scott’s upcoming book “Urban Legend, The Life & Legacy of C. Emlen Urban,” Lancaster’s most renowned ...