Metapatterns Photo Gallery

(order varies randomly)

• Grasses (Photo by Jeff Bloom) — tubes, with layered seeds — tubes for support and transport
• Spider Web (Photo by Jeff Bloom) — a web of tubes creating a sheet for capturing
• Saguaro Cactus (Photo by Jeff Bloom) — tubular "body" for optimizing relationship between surface area and volume - enough storage volume for water and reduced surface area for minimizing evaporative loss
• Moon (Photo by Jeff Bloom) — celestial sphere — as opposed to biological and social/technological functionality, what is the function here?
• Aquatic Arthropod (Photo by Jeff Bloom) — sets of tubes as holons and holarchies
• Fall Forest Path (Photo by Jeff Bloom) — a tube
• Aquatic Flat Worm (Photo by Jeff Bloom) — a sheet with binary of eyespots
• Sea Anemone (Photo by Jeff Bloom) — tube with tubular tentacles
• Sea Anemone (Photo by Jeff Bloom) — tube with clusters of tubular tentacles
• Wind Sock (Photo by Jeff Bloom) — tubular wind sock functioning as an arrow to sea planes
• Amoeba (Photo by Jeff Bloom) — a sheet with internal tubes and spheres
• Flowers (Photo by Jeff Bloom) — spherical flowers hanging from tubes attached to tubes attached to tubes
• Leaf (Photo by Jeff Bloom) — a sheet composed of branching tubes
• Flower (Photo by Jeff Bloom) — a holarchy of sheet-like petals