The Architects’ Alphabet is a 26-part series describing design elements featured in Gregory J. Scott’s upcoming book “Urban Legend, The Life & Legacy of C. Emlen Urban,” Lancaster’s most renowned ...

A seamlessly-repeating pattern fill can be an attractive background for your company website as well as fliers, business cards and other documents. Creating such a pattern can however be quite tricky ...

Simple patterns can be found almost everywhere in the environment, from drain covers to leaves and road markings, say Julie Mountain and Felicity Robinson Patterns are essential to building ...

Remember the graph paper you used at school, the kind that’s covered with tiny squares? It’s the perfect illustration of what mathematicians call a “periodic tiling of space”, with shapes covering an ...

IT may not be generally known that the Theorem of Pythagoras, Euclid I. 47, is closely connected with the Theory of Repeating Patterns in space of two dimensions. The simplest proof by dissection of ...