pattern understanding
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Pattern Understandin
gA Template for
Observation, Design & Connection
& The Origins of Form
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Patterns are familiar or recognizable, predictable, repeating / rhythmic memorable FORMS.
Patterns are visible as EDGES.
Patterns are detectable by oursenses & intuitively.
Patterns reflect body-centeredholistic knowledge.
Pattern Recognition is fundamental to human ecologicsuccess & the core of Permaculture design.
Pattern Recognition is a linkingdiscipline that appliesequally to geography, biology,music, art, astronomy, physics,economics, physiology, technology, etc, etc.
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Patterns, Patterns Everywhere• Points & Streamlines• Meanders & Waves• Lobes • Spirals• Branching / Dendritic• Cracking, Stacking & Packing• Explosions & Scatter Patterns, Radii
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…especially this pattern:We are “Hard-wired” for Pattern…
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Nature Uses Pattern to Solve Design Challenges
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Use pattern, not more material, to add strength
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Nature uses Patternto solve Spatial Relationships
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EDGES mark BOUNDARIESbetween media or systems
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Branching: Access by Proximity
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Branches: for collection and
distribution
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Patterns show the movement of ENERGYthrough MEDIA.
Patterns reveal FLOWS, emanatingfrom EVENTS (or ORIGINS).
Flows have magnitude, or patternsthat occur in ORDERS.
ORDERS reveal levels of scale.
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At Edges:• stresses arise• flows are interrupted• particles accumulate• resources of 2 (or more) systems are available• unique niches occur
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Pentagonal and Hexagonal Cells:Patterns of Packing and Cracking
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Packing and cracking: nets
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Patterns of packing in bubble films:
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What does the tortoise know?
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Packing & Stacking
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The Fabric of Life is a Matrix or Mosaic of Tessellated(Tiled) Patterns in Oscillation
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Surface is expensive. Nature will minimize it.
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CRENELLATED edges enrichproductive potential.
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Optimizing Edge
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Waves
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Patterns reveal FLOWS, emanatingfrom EVENTS (or ORIGINS)…
Flow is accelerated along edges (Venturi or sheer effect).
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Meanders in Fluvial Geomorphology
Tortuous Meanders
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- Lobes- Scatter patterns
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Lobes: increased edge for transfer across surfaces
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Lobes solve spatial relationships
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Lobes in Landscape
Design
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Explosions &Scatter Patterns
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Radial
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Spirals: patterns of growth, flow and form
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Flows have properties:1. Direction2. Volume, order,
magnitude3. Velocity, viscosity4. Duration,5. Periodicity6. Overlaps &
interactions7. Significance
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Flows come together, formingNODES which we can learnto see as:
1. INDICATORS2. ANOMALIES3. PARADOXES4. ATTRACTORS
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Von Karmann trails
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The Overbeck Jet
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Spirals, Waves, and Vortexes Everywhere
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Vortexes for Moving Fluids
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Spiraling for optimum light
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Fractal Geometry
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The Fibonacci Sequence0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34 . . .
1/1 = 1.01/2 = 0.52/3 = 0.6675/8 = 0.6258/13 = 0.61513/21 = 0.619The ratio of further pairs approaches 0.618034 . . .THE GOLDEN MEAN
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Fibonacci and Spirals
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Fractals & Fibonacci
Spirals
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A common number pattern in nature
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Augment, deflect, or complex flow at the edge using barriers, nets, filters, or funnels to direct or harvest animals, plant, soil, water, wind, money, or influence.
Place accumulators (of mulch, nutrient, seed, light, heat, or moisture in landscapes, or information in social systems.
Design Strategies to get a yield from Boundary Stresses:
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Edge stresses are diffused across media by wind, water, radiation, reflection, & conduction (e.g. alley cropping & chinampas).
Place a translator between media, disciplines, cultures, ages (bees, seacoast harvesters, merchants, fencing).
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Trees can compress the streamline 20 – 40 times the height of the tree
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Patterns represent RELATIONSHIPand reveal the DYNAMICS of PLACE, based on flows & recurring events.
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Luneate Patterns
Flows have properties:1. Direction2. Volume, order, magnitude3. Velocity, viscosity4. Duration,5. Periodicity6. Overlaps & interactions7. Significance
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Non-Spatial Patterns:Behavior & Ritual
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