Patterns

[MLE]

I think patterns are awesome! Looking at architecture or even repeating tiles, I find a sense of comfort in observing patterns. I think that's why I'm always drawn to Gingham and plaids in my fashion choices...

I can usually find patterns in most things... I'll sit for hours looking at aerial images on Google Earth looking at how humans have developed this planet and then compare it to an ant mound and you can see the patterns/similarities in the two... It's interesting... to me...

Does anyone else find patterns fascinating?

 

[Judge]

For me, discovering patterns is everything. A fundamental way of validating ones thoughts or suspicions.

I too find consistency and symmetry in what I observe to be comforting. Though I'm also aware of pareidolia, the phenomenon where people see human faces in random images or patterns. Amusing, but not something to truly validate much of anything.

I enjoy looking at street maps to identify streets which run consistent with true north as opposed to magnetic north. The latter being indicative of a much older point in time. One of the most classic examples being a street map of Sacramento, California. Which clearly depicts the center of town along two rivers going back to 1839 where most streets run magnetic north. With outlying districts running true north. providing a clear understanding of Sacramento's oldest and newer parts of town.

Google Maps

 

[MLE]

Though I'm also aware of pareidolia, the phenomenon where people see human faces in random images or patterns.

Google Maps

I also see faces in random images/patterns...

 

[Finder]

Yup. I love to look. Probably the reason my undergraduate degree was in imaging. There is nothing more enjoyable than walking around and seeing the world.

 

[Wolfsage]

Truly. History is also full of interesting patterns.

 

[Neonatal RRT]

Part of my expertise is mechanical ventilator waveform graphics. It's not that you are breathing, but rather how you are breathing. Having a graphical representation of the interactions of flow, pressure, and volume is like learning a visual language. I can just glance at things and grasp what is going on. Others in my field really struggle with this.

 

[_eri_bellehumeur]

I'm quite good at picking up on patterns between seemingly unrelated ideas, but visual patterns, especially in natural phenomena like the branching of trees for example are very interesting to me. When I learned about the golden ratio it was a big "aha" moment as there were connections I had seen in the physical world that I never had an explanation for until then and it was very interesting.

 

[Hylian]

I'm really good at figuring out patterns, and I learn best by making things into them. Looking for patterns in things is also really fun and one of my most favourite things to do.

 

[Gracey]

I can find some comfort in patterns.
The reliability of repetition.

It can work for human behaviour and responses too.
A generalised response to certain events or circumstances can follow a pattern. Things like tragedy, loss, disgust, celebration & joy to name but a few.

I have to submerge myself in 'numbers' for weeks first, to be able to see relationships and patterns in numbers (maths)
Isn't something I can do 'off the cuff'

Patterns in music, nature and even wallpaper designs can be comforting

 

[Soleil]

I recall being in a theater or auditorium that had large decorative squares on the wall. There was no recognizable pattern to their placement, which bugged the hell out of me. I kept imagining myself pushing all the squares together into a single block.

In general, finding patterns is kind of rewarding, like finding an easter egg in a game. But it can also be very distracting following the pattern.

 

[Aspie_With_Attitude]

Who recognises this pattern?