Nature Patterns: Chaos, Flow, Meanders

Graphic Study of Patterns in Nature:

Chaos is defined scientifically as a form of order that lacks predictability; it’s the study of how simple patterns can be generated from complicated underlying behavior.

Flow is a repeating pattern of swirling vortices caused by a process known as vortex shedding. This process is responsible for the unsteady separation of flow of a fluid around blunt bodies.

Meander includes a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse. When a river shifts its channel within a valley or it swings from side to side as it flows across its floodplain it produces as meander pattern.