patterning

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"The visual cortex itself changes. It becomes more similar to the areas around it. There are still a lot of questions about how development controls this patterning."

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2024

The pictures’ flatly painted skin and two-dimensional patterning in textiles and wallpaper are set into shimmering visual motion.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2024

Most of Thomas’ paintings pile on vivid color, brash patterning and lots of sparkling rhinestones, taking an exultant step toward rectifying the omission.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2024

The new study identified a common molecular cue, while known to direct head-to-tail patterning in a wide variety of animals, as part of the gene circuitry guiding hindbrain patterning in sea lampreys.

From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2024

Sometimes I went up to the frozen cliffwall and looked down, down, at where the lights lay blue, like the threads running out from a star, patterning the snow.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner