This Painted Trillium, which I photographed a few years ago in the Catskill Mountains, has D3 symmetry type. Lots of flowers have rotational symmetries … what other mandalas occurring in nature do you like? Any natural border patterns?
Symmetries in nature
April 7, 2013 Written by Laurence Kirby | 1 Comment
Categories: mandala gallery
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al151615 // Apr 16th 2013 at 10:08 pm
Something so simple as the ripples in the water after you throw a rock into a stream or lake has symmetry. If you can visualize a water drop, and its aftermath, the imprint it makes, there are circles within circles, within circles. I guess if you looked close enough, with all the particles in the water, some sort of border patter could microscopically be made out