The ability to make custom patterns is quite helpful but learning how to make patterns that repeat seamlessly in Illustrator makes it even better. Patterns that will show where the edges repeat may ...

Is it possible to tile a surface with a single shape in such a way that the pattern never repeats itself? In 2022, a mathematical solution to this 'Einstein problem' was discovered for the first time.

It was long thought that all crystals are made of atoms ordered into a periodic repeating pattern — analogous to the way in which hexagonal cells form the repeated pattern of a honeycomb, for example, ...

For centuries, mathematicians and floor designers alike have been fascinated by the shapes that can tile a plane — in particular, those that do so without repetition. Now, a team of chemists has ...

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...