How a little girl and a stuffed bear helped set the course for symmetry. Two score and ten issues ago, Fermilab and SLAC brought forth a new publication, conceived in optimism and dedicated to the ...

To most people, “symmetry” means the bilateral symmetry exhibited by, say, a butterfly, or the human face. That is, if you take a picture of a butterfly and draw a straight line down the middle of the ...

Mathematician Katie Steckles explains just why the proliferation of snowflake decorations this time of year is deeply ...

Symmetry photography can be divisive. And perhaps that's because we teach photographers to be prejudiced against it, from the first time they pick up a camera. The first thing we tell people is to ...

I know that symmetry photography can be divisive, but it's one of the first things that my eye looks for as a compositional tool. And this obviously goes against the first photographic rule that most ...

This study shows that children up to the age of 7 spontaneously use symmetry in their drawings to express their knowledge about plant life. In the sample analysed, this is a very frequent strategy and ...

We are fond of saying things are symmetric, but what does that really mean? Intuitively we have a sense of symmetry as a kind of mirroring. Suppose we draw a vertical line through the middle of a ...

Tips on locating and photographing the many different forms of water reflections, from dramatic landscapes to detailed macro compositions. We’re all attracted to bodies of water, whether it’s the sea, ...