Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Pattern or chaos?

These heirloom Indian corn cobs (majs, maize) are patterned not by a designer, but by the turning on and off by certain genes based on random pollination by wind. So a random event leads to a pattern, or does it just look like chaos? I don't think so, even irregular patterns are patterns in my mind. But I think different people see patterns differently, and that there is no right or wrong in pattern vision, just different views and opinions.

3 comments:

PP said...

patterns with politics

some of you have seen this before, but there are new ones now. Good stuff!

LS said...

2 million plastic bottles used every 5 minutes in the US? No wonder the Earth is not working properly!

O.K. said...

Well, there is a geometrical pattern for sure, and the colors are somewhat kept in line on each cob, so I'd say this is a pattern I like. They have those tendencies to breaking up the patterns, making them dynamic and interesting as I said earlier.
Hmm, suddenly I have an urge to listen to Steve Reich or maybe Iannis Xenakis...