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Tessellations in Nature: 12 Examples and the Geometry Behind Them

A tessellation in nature is a repeating arrangement of shapes that covers a surface with no gaps and no overlaps. Honeycomb, turtle shells, basalt columns and dragonfly wings are all tessellations, and each one exists because tiling a surface completely is the cheapest way to do a particular job.

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Patterns in Nature: The 10 Types and What Each One Solves

A pattern in nature is a form that repeats because it solves a problem. Spirals, hexagons, branches and fractals show up again and again across unrelated species because each one answers a physical question — how to grow, how to hold weight, how to move fluid, how to fill space without waste.

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