Feiyang (Francis) Li Student No: 582015 Semester 2/2012 Group 13
Introduction
This project is to creat a portable lantern that can be worn on a body by using natrual process form and patterns. In order to do that, I have read Pattern Formation in Nature by Ball(2012) as a starting point and then came out the ideas about Chemical Patterns. It leads me to do further reasearches about animal markings and also promoted the question of how pattern formation occurs in the earliest stages of embryo formation. Eventually, I decided to use the pattern of peacock's tail feather as my lantern element
Pattern~Reputation From the lecture and reading articles, I conclud that it is very important to find out the patterns in our environment. Ball states that Pattern formations are apparent in natural system. Despite the astonishing range and variety of suchstructures, many have comparable features. According to what he says, I start to investigate more pattern formats from embryo, animal marking and how patterns invovled in our daily lives.
Once gem cell and ovum become zyogte. A new life starts, it also begins a pattern. From the above picture, we can see most animals begin a very common shape. As time goes by, shapes change. Therefore, we can see patterns will change due to the space and time.
Exploring Natrual Process-Embryo Growth
Biologically, the zyogte divides more cells, the zyogte actually increases it size as well. As it shape changes, the pattern changes as well. However, these self-orgnised patterns are not easy for me to determinate the idea which can easily experienced on the lantern. Therefore, I search more patterns from the animal markings prespective.
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Among on widly researches about animal markings, I found I am quite interested in the pattern on peacocks' feathur- Plumage
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The brilliant iridescent colours of the male Peacock's tail feathers are created by structural coloration, as first noted by Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke ●
Structural coloration is the production of colour by microscopically structured surfaces fine enough to interfere with visible light, sometimes in combination with pigments: for example, peacock tail feathers are pigmented brown, but their structure makes them appear blue, turquoise, and green, and often they appear iridescent.[] In animals, these colours are created in a range of ways, including by diffraction gratings and other photonic effects.
Using different scalar can observe different patterns. In microcosmic perspective, the Peacock's tail feathers are assembled by throusands and throusandssmall elements (cells). These organised arrays of elements arised spontaneously from the interactions between their many component parts, wheather they are chemical reagents that react and diffuse small particles. In microscopic perspective, we can say that the feathers are assebled by throusands and throusands stripes. These different coloured stripes contributed those “eyes” (spots) This applied Turing's model which generates two particular kinds of pattern: spots and stripes. Turning's philosophy suggests a mechanism for animal markings: during embryo growth, diffusing morphogens imprint the skin (or feathers) with patterns that either switch on pigment-generating genes or leave them off.
Culture&Meaning Context
He is God - the Creator, the Maker, the Giver of Form. To Him belong the Most Beautiful Names. Everything in the heavens and Earth glorifies Him. He is the Almighty, the All-Wise. (Qur'an, 59:24)
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Further FurtherExploration-Movement Exploration-Movement
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Precedent
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