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OURS is a world of patterns, both living and non-living, from the rippling dunes of the Sahara to the butterflies鈥� kaleidoscopic wings and the infinite detail of a fractured surface. Philip Ball鈥檚 Shapes is the first volume in a trilogy exploring the natural laws that create these varied forms.

Packed with inspiring images of natural patterns, including the perfect hexagons of the bees鈥� honeycomb and the angelfish鈥檚 stripes, Shapes answers questions such as what makes seawater foam like the frothy head of a beer? And why do snowflakes have such intricate structure, all strikingly symmetric and similar, yet no two ever identical?

makes it clear that all of these seemingly complex patterns arise quite naturally through the operation of surprisingly simple rules and that there is no need for the guiding intelligence of any 鈥淢aster Patterner鈥�.