How dragonfly wings get their patterns New model sheds light on how nature generates diverse patterns Date: September 17, 2018 Source: Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied ...

Finally, the fifth, biomimetic pattern comes up in turtle shells, dragonfly wings, and elsewhere, but not in its mathematically pure form known as the Voronoi diagram.

Researchers from Harvard University have developed a model that can recreate, with only a few parameters, the wing patterns of a large group of insects, shedding light on how these complex ...