Patterns in nature are found in plants, foliage and animals creating an infinite variety of patterns. This design was inspired by the art of Ernst Haeckel. Haeckel was a scientist and accomplished artist. Sketchpads and watercolors accompanied his microscope wherever he traveled. His field study drawings of deep-sea vegetation, aquatic creatures, frogs, birds, and higher animals were publication in 1904. His illustrations are beautiful and idealize nature, and may have influenced the Art Nouveau movement. His scientific theories were sometimes flawed and later misused but his art is wonderful.

“Fractal geometry will make you see everything differently. There is danger in reading further. You risk the loss of your childhood vision of clouds, forests, flowers, galaxies, leaves, feathers, rocks, mountains, torrents of water, carpets, bricks, and much else besides. Never again will your interpretation of these things be quite the same.”
—Michael F. Barnsley, author of Fractals Everywhere.

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