Patterns - Revealing Nature's Underlying Order and Form

“图案”旨在提供一个高影响力的大型户外展览，通过一系列辉煌的全彩图像和雕塑，探索自然界中图案形成的科学。2013年1月底推出，为期12周，“模式”是我们25周年庆典的旗舰公开发行，与苏格兰政府庆祝“苏格兰自然年”的一系列活动相关联。免费、开放和无障碍的展览将为接触新观众提供一个宝贵的平台。它将成为我们继续努力使那些不一定参与或不受大多数传统科学传播活动影响的人更容易获得科学技术的一个有价值的部分。从精选的世界级收藏品中精选出多达45张图片和一些特别挑选的雕塑作品，将揭示一些令人瞠目结目的视觉形态，这些视觉形态为我们的世界增添了色彩和图案，并将解释数学和物理定律——自然的力量——在这种惊人的秩序和规律的表现中所起的作用。从蝴蝶翅膀上的图案，到风吹过的沙漠涟漪，到雪花和水晶的诱惑，再到星系的螺旋，我们的世界充满了美丽、对称和复杂。科学和技术不仅可以解释为什么会这样，而且可以通过使用尖端的图像技术，揭示这些模式的所有荣耀。选择一些这样的主题，“模式”将：-提供一个美丽而引人注目的自然基本秩序的视觉展示。-揭示数学和几何原理如何作为一种模式书，大自然从中构建复杂而复杂的结构。-揭开模式如何形成的令人兴奋的秘密；简单规则的重复如何导致生命和非生命系统中一些最有趣的自然模式的形成。-展示艺术家/摄影师的作品，他们的作品灵感来自大自然的底层结构和形式。——论证科学技术在揭示这些规律并解释其成因中所起的重要作用。2013年是苏格兰自然年，爱丁堡国际科学节旨在将这一活动与国家首要目标联系起来，以促进公众对自然科学的兴趣和参与，以配合对苏格兰自然议程日益增长的认识和热情。

'Patterns' aims to deliver a high-impact, large-scale, outdoor exhibition that will explore, through a series of glorious full-colour images and sculpture, the science of pattern formation in nature.Launched at the end of January 2013 and running for 12 weeks, 'Patterns' be the flagship public offering of our 25th Anniversary Festivals, linking to a suite of activities across Scotland in celebration of the Scottish Government's 'Year of Natural Scotland'.Free, open and accessible, the exhibition will provide a valuable platform for reaching new audiences. It will form a valuable part of our continued attempts to make science and technology easily accessible to those not necessarily engaged with, or targeted by, most traditional science communication activity.Curated from a selection of world-class collections, a selection of up to 45 images and a number of specially chosen sculptural works will reveal some of the myriad of eye-popping visual formations that colour and pattern our world and will explain the role that the laws of maths and physics - the forces of nature - play in the manifestation of this astonishing order and regularity.From the patterns on a butterfly's wings, to the windblown ripples of desert sand, the allure of snowflakes and crystals, and the spirals of galaxies, our world is full of beauty, symmetry and complexity. Science and technology can not only explain WHY this is the case but can - through the use of cutting-edge imagery techniques - also reveal these patterns in all their glory.Choosing a number of these general themes, 'Patterns' will: - Provide a beautiful and arresting visual demonstration of nature's underlying order. - Reveal how mathematical and geometric principles act as a kind of pattern book from which nature constructs complex and sophisticated structures. - Demystify the exciting secrets of just how patterns come into being; how the repetition of simple rules leads to the formation of some of nature's most intriguing patterns in both living and non-living system. - Showcase the work of artists/photographers whose work is inspired by nature's underlying structure and form. - Demonstrate the vital role that science and technology play in making these patterns visible and explaining their genesis.2013 is the Year of Natural Scotland and Edinburgh International Science Festival aims to tie this event to that overarching national objective to promote public interest and engagement in nature in science to align with a growing awareness and enthusiasm for the Natural Scotland agenda.