THE SELF-MADE TAPESTRY PATTERN FORMATION IN NATURE.

Ball Philip.:

ISBN 10: 0198502443 / ISBN 13: 9780198502449

Published by Oxford University Press First Edition, 1999

About this Item

A hard cover publication of 287 pages, medium 4to. with many explanatory figures and colour plates. The text and d / w. are virtually as new but there has been some sort of printing problem, I think, which has left the front endpaper a couple of millimetres short of the other pages - not very serious!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE SELF-MADE TAPESTRY PATTERN FORMATION IN NATURE.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press First Edition
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198502443
• ISBN 13: 9780198502449
• Binding: Hardcover
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

This text explains how nature's patterns - the markings on animals, windblown ripples of sand, the forms of water in motion - are woven by self-organization, through simple, local interactions between their component parts. The products of self-organization are universal patterns: spirals, spots and stripes, branches and honeycombs.

About the Author

Philip Ball, an editor at Nature since 1988, has written many scientific articles on all topics for the popular press. His first book, Designing the Molecular World, won the American Association of Publishers award for books on chemistry.