Around that time he was also reading A Pattern Language, by Christopher Alexander, an urban theorist who pushed for a new architecture that served various aspects of human behavior, rejecting the arbitrariness of present-day offerings.

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Whenever I think there's a perfect pattern, further reading and study reveal an exception.

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Dr Mike Blackburn of the National Centre for Atmospheric Science at the University of Reading admits that the reasons for a static pattern of the flow remain unclear.

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He then placed a grille a piece of cardboard with three squares cut out in a diagonal pattern on top of the table, and started forming words by reading off the syllables as he moved the grille across columns and down rows.

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