NOTES ON PATTERNS

notes

Definitions:

What is a pattern? According to Webster's, a pattern is a natural or chance configuration. Another definition is "a reliable sample of traits, tendencies, acts, or other observable characteristics of a person, [thing], group or institution." When we recognize a pattern in an event or thing, we may be able to make predictions based on that pattern. In other words, we are able to foretell an event because of past experience, observation or even scientific reason. Because there is a regularity, a pattern, of an occurance, we can guess the future. (author unknown)

What pattern connects the crab to the lobster and the orchid to the primrose and all four of them to me? And me to you? And all six of us to the amoeba in one direction and to the back-ward schizophrenic in another? (Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature)

references

Alexander, Christopher

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. 1977. *

Ball, Philip

The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature. 1998.

Benedict, Ruth

Patterns in Culture.

Berne, Eric

Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships. 1964. *

Clay, Grady

Real Places: An Unconvential Guide to America's Generic Landscape. 1994. *

Gamma, Erich et al.

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. 1994.

Jacobs, Jane

Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics. 1992. *

Morgan, Gareth

Images of Organization. 1986. *

Polti, Georges

The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations. 1868. *

Propp, Vladimir

Morphology of the Folk Tale.

Spencer-Brown, George

The Laws of Form. 1969.

Stevens, Peter

Patterns in Nature.

Handbook of Regular Patterns.

Thompson, D'arcy

On Growth and Form.

Volk, Tyler

Metapatterns. 1995. *

urls

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