What is a Pattern?

There's actually a lot of different kinds out there...

Textiles, Fabrics, and Tiles

Maybe you think of plaid?

a dog in a picnic basekt with a plaid blanket

or houndstooth?

houndstooth pattern

or some bathroom tiles?

houndstooth pattern

Nature

Maybe you might think of patterns in nature.

Like the ripples in dunes...

sand dunes with ripples in the sand

or the waves of the sea

a gif of waves in the sea

or the spirals in shells a nautilus shell with the golden ratio spiral

or how lightning, tree roots, tree branches, and human veins all look the same. wtf is up with that

examples of fractals in nature looking the same like tree roots, tree branches, rivers, lightning, and leaf veins