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  2. Patterns in nature - Wikipedia

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    The structures of minerals provide good examples of regularly repeating three-dimensional arrays. Despite the hundreds of thousands of known minerals, there are rather few possible types of arrangement of atoms in a crystal , defined by crystal structure , crystal system , and point group ; for example, there are exactly 14 Bravais lattices for ...

  3. Chromostereopsis - Wikipedia

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    Chromostereopsis is a visual illusion whereby the impression of depth is conveyed in two-dimensional color images, usually of red–blue or red–green colors, but can also be perceived with red–grey or blue–grey images. [1] [2] Such illusions have been reported for over a century and have generally been attributed to some form of chromatic ...

  4. Scientific visualization - Wikipedia

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    Notable early two-dimensional examples include the flow map of Napoleon's March on Moscow produced by Charles Joseph Minard in 1869; [2] the "coxcombs" used by Florence Nightingale in 1857 as part of a campaign to improve sanitary conditions in the British Army; [2] and the dot map used by John Snow in 1855 to visualise the Broad Street cholera ...

  5. Crystal growth - Wikipedia

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    An example of the cubic crystals typical of the rock-salt structure [broken anchor]. Time-lapse of growth of a citric acid crystal. The video covers an area of 2.0 by 1.5 mm and was captured over 7.2 min. The interface between a crystal and its vapor can be molecularly sharp at temperatures well below the melting point.

  6. Lichen growth forms - Wikipedia

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    This is the most three-dimensional of the lichen growth forms, and the most sensitive to air pollution. [41] The term "fruticose" is derived from the Latin word fruticosus, meaning "shrubby" or "similar to a shrub" (from frutex, meaning "shrub"). [42]

  7. Depiction - Wikipedia

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    A picture refers to its object through a non-linguistic [citation needed] two-dimensional scheme, and is distinct from writing or notation. A depictive two-dimensional scheme is called a picture plane and may be constructed according to descriptive geometry , where they are usually divided between projections (orthogonal and various oblique ...

  8. Stranski–Krastanov growth - Wikipedia

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    This layer-by-layer growth is two-dimensional, indicating that complete films form prior to growth of subsequent layers. [2] [3] Stranski–Krastanov growth is an intermediary process characterized by both 2D layer and 3D island growth. Transition from the layer-by-layer to island-based growth occurs at a critical layer thickness which is ...

  9. Form perception - Wikipedia

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    Form perception is the recognition of visual elements of objects, specifically those to do with shapes, patterns and previously identified important characteristics. An object is perceived by the retina as a two-dimensional image, [1] but the image can vary for the same object in terms of the context with which it is viewed, the apparent size of the object, the angle from which it is viewed ...