The Self-Made Tapestry

A remarkable book about pattern formation in nature, starting from D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's book 'On Growth and Form'. Based on the idea of emergent self-organisation, the book details pattern formation across a whole range of phenomena: bubbles, waves, branches and fluids for instance. It is profusely illustrated and makes the reader aware of many everyday patterns that are taken for granted, opening, as Goethe would put it, 'a new organ of perception'.