Symmetry
This type of symmetry occurs when an object can be divided into two mirror-image halves, like a butterfly or the human body.
What is Bilateral Symmetry?
This famous fractal set, named after a mathematician, shows infinitely repeating spirals and is often drawn in colors.
What is the Mandelbrot set?
Artist is famous for mathematical art that depicts turbulance
Who was Van Gogh?
This sequence begins 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8… and appears in pinecones, sunflowers, and shells.
What is the fibonacci sequence?
These two words describe molecules with the same formula but different 3D shapes, such as left-handed and right-handed sugars.
What are Booger Bisomers? I mean, Sugar Isomers
This type of symmetry repeats around a central point, as seen in starfish and some flowers.
What is Rotational Symmetry?
Examples in nature of branching fractals — they branch repeatedly in smaller and smaller patterns.
What are... trees, rivers, lightning, structure of the lungs?
These are the only regular polygons that can tesselate on their own. (Name one)
What are triangles, squares, and hexagons?
Many spirals in nature approximate this special number, about 1.618.
What is the Golden Ratio?
Tiger stripes and leopard spots emerge from these mathematical pattern-forming equations.
What are Turing patterns?
A snowflake’s sixfold design is an example of this specific rotational symmetry.
6-fold rotational symmetry
This term describes patterns that repeat at smaller and smaller scales, often infinitely.
What is self-similarity?
Bee honeycombs use this shape to create the strongest, most efficient tessellation.
What is a hexagon?
Pinecones and pineapples show these numbers in the spirals of their scales.
This term describes how animals sense their own world through their species-specific perceptual “bubble.”
What is Umwelt?
This word describes symmetry in which each half is a mirror of the other, but the molecule or object cannot be superimposed on its mirror image.
What is Chiral or Chirality?
A pattern of repeating shapes that fit together without gaps or overlaps is called this.
What is tesselation?
The swirling, curling lines in Van Gogh’s Starry Night resemble this complex natural fluid behavior.
What is turbulence?
The ratio of successive Fibonacci numbers approaches this value.
What is the Golden Ratio?
The reason DNA’s double helix twists in a predictable way is related to this handedness-based concept.
What is chirality?
The left and right hands are classic examples of this symmetry-related property.
What is Chiral symmetry?
This is the irregular, chaotic motion of a fluid (like air or water) when smooth, steady flow breaks down into swirling eddies and vortices of many sizes.
What is Turbulence?
Monarch butterflies migrate thousands of miles following invisible atmospheric and magnetic cues—an example of this broad phenomenon of repeated movement.
What is migration?
In 1952, this mathematician proposed that chemical substances (which he called “morphogens”) could interact in such a way that stable patterns form on animal bodies as they grow.
Who is Alan Turing?
Vision sharpness is measured in this — approximately how many black-and-white stripes you can see on your thumbnail at arm’s length. Humans see about 60–70 CPD.
What is Cycles Per Degree?