Patterns - Revealing Nature's Underlying Order and Form

“图案”旨在提供一个高影响力，大型，户外展览，将通过一系列辉煌的全彩色图像和雕塑，探索自然界中图案形成的科学。“图案”于2013年1月底推出，为期12周，是我们25周年庆典的旗舰公开产品，与苏格兰各地庆祝苏格兰政府“自然苏格兰年”的一系列活动相联系。免费，开放和无障碍，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的重要组成部分，使那些不一定参与或成为大多数传统科学传播活动的目标的人能够轻松获得科学和技术。多达45个图像和一些特别挑选的雕塑作品的选择将揭示一些无数的眼睛-我们的世界充满了色彩和图案，而数学和物理定律--自然的力量--在这种令人惊讶的秩序和规律性的表现中所起的作用也将得到解释。从蝴蝶翅膀上的图案，到沙漠中被风吹起的涟漪，雪花和水晶的诱惑，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。选择一些这些一般性的主题，“模式”将：-提供一个美丽的和引人注目的视觉演示自然的潜在秩序。- 揭示数学和几何原理如何作为一种模式书，自然界从中构建复杂和精密的结构。- 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自然界最有趣的模式的形成。- 展示艺术家/摄影师的作品，他们的作品灵感来自大自然的基本结构和形式。- 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总体目标联系起来，以促进公众对科学中自然的兴趣和参与，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.