A seamlessly-repeating pattern fill can be an attractive background for your company website as well as fliers, business cards and other documents. Creating such a pattern can however be quite tricky ...

The ability to make custom patterns is quite helpful but learning how to make patterns that repeat seamlessly in Illustrator makes it even better. Patterns that will show where the edges repeat may ...

New clues have been uncovered in the mystery of fast radio bursts (FRBs) from space. One of these strange signals has been repeating seemingly at random – but with years of observation, an ...

Remember the graph paper you used at school, the kind that’s covered with tiny squares? It’s the perfect illustration of what mathematicians call a “periodic tiling of space”, with shapes covering an ...

Melinda Steffy's "Ruination Day" exhibit at the Crane Arts Building is a visual interpretation of the songs about three catastrophes that took place on April 14, the sinking of the Titanic, the ...

They say practice makes perfect, and for the artists in the Carroll County Arts Council’s newest exhibition, “Metrics,” it is this repetition that drives their work. The exhibit features work of three ...

“Plop plop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is.” You might have thought that only the pill that goes with that jingle creates relief. But science suggests the jingle’s wording itself elicits relief.

Parallel Power This points to one of the simplest and easiest tricks to help you say things with more impact: Recast the flow of your words into repeating patterns. Create a prime and a follow-up (or ...

Ever wanted an actual one-of-a-kind bathroom or kitchen? Well, mathematicians have found the perfect tile for you. A team from the University of Arkansas have discovered the first shape that can cover ...