An Atlas of Hidden Structures
About the journal
A publication about recurring forms and the forces that give them shape.
Look closely. Compare carefully.
A crystal, a building and a city can share an arrangement that catches the eye. Looking at them side by side gives us a way to ask better questions. What repeats? What holds the pattern together? Where does the comparison break down?
Patterns Across Time follows those questions through science, architecture and everyday objects. We work with photographs, diagrams and long-form essays because each can show something the others miss.
How we work
We label schematics and generated illustrations in their captions. Documentary images carry their own credits. Essays link to sources and explain the limits of comparisons.
Contact
Public contact details are forthcoming.
Image credits
- From Crystal Lattices to City StreetsBarcelona’s Eixample seen from above. Brightness adjusted and cropped for display. Alhzeiia · CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Why Crystals Prefer SymmetryAI-generated illustration of cubic mineral forms. Patterns Across Time with OpenAI ImageGen.
- The Architecture of RepetitionThe Salk Institute courtyard, looking west along the water channel. Resized and cropped for display. Travis Zhang (Qi Zhang) · CC BY-SA 4.0.
- The Honeycomb Principle: Nature, Matter and DesignWax honeycomb with capped cells. Resized and cropped for display. Waugsberg · CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Geometry Across CivilizationsNasrid limestone panel, late 13th to mid-14th century, object 2011.182. The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Public domain.
- Procedural drawingsPatterns Across Time. Original schematic SVG artwork.
