Many machine-vision applications require a pattern-finding tool (PFT), but traditional PFTs based on normalized cross correlation (NCC) techniques suffer major drawbacks. For example, the patterns to ...

Particles as different as soap bubbles and ball bearings can be made to arrange themselves in exactly the same way, according ...

A database, collecting and classifying tile-like patterns in biology, aims to be a resource and research catalyst. The human ...

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From Death Valley to Chile to Iran, similarly sized polygons of salt form in playas all over the world — and subterranean fluid flows might be the key to solving the long-standing puzzle of why.

Infinitely many copies of a 13-sided shape can be arranged with no overlaps or gaps in a pattern that never repeats. David Smith, Joseph Samuel Myers, Craig S. Kaplan and Chaim Goodman-Strauss (CC BY ...