Table of Contents
1. Natural Patterns
2. First example: sand ripples
3. Photograph of a sandy beach
4. Second example: convection rolls
in clouds
5. Photograph of cloud patterns
6. Detail of the previous photograph
showing a defect
7. Third example: fish skin
patterns
8. Sailfin surgeonfish
9. Black-back butterflyfish
10. Pinstriped butterflyfish
11. Shaw's cowfish
12. Blue-lined rabbitfish
13. Fourth example: animal coat
patterns
14. Coral rabbitfish
15. Other examples of patterns
in nature
17. Erosion patterns
16. Mudcrack patterns
18. Bioconvection patterns
19. Understanding pattern formation:
Laboratory experiments
20. Understanding pattern formation
Modeling
21. Numerics vs. experiments I
22. Numerics vs. experiments II
23. Numerics vs. experiments III
24. Understanding pattern formation:
Other examples of numerical simulations
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