Centerlife - Happiness Through Nature's Design May 2019 | Page 18

Radials
Like spokes of a bicycle wheel to their hub, radials
highlight the connectivity of a creation’s parts to
their center. For instance, most of the 300,000
species of plants in existence have some degree of
radial configuration. Other radial designs include
roulette wheels, dartboards, the flow of goods
from distribution hubs, spider webs, flowers,
and starfish.
Sections of a Conical
Ellipses, parabolas, and hyperbolas form precise
center-oriented patterns about core foci. These
conical sections link the theoretical and physical
worlds with incredible mathematical precision
describing the physical trajectories of planetary
orbits, the shape of satellite dishes, and the path
of a ball thrown overhead.
Clusters
Clusters are the catchall for Centerpatterns that
don’t neatly fit into other Centerpattern
classifications. In essence, clusters only require
the general agglomeration of parts about a
common center. We see them in beautiful star
clusters, in how we gather around a street
performer, in swarms of insects around sources
of food or light, in the population densities near city centers, and how antibodies
attack invading viruses and bacteria.
Distribution Curves
Nature’s
ubiquitous
disposition
to
generate
symmetry and balance never ceases to amaze. Bell
curves (and their standard distributions) highlight
the subtly of this quality and its center-oriented
disposition. The first clue distribution curves adhere
to a center-oriented design comes from the pyramid-
like shape formed by bell curves. Standard deviations
bands also speak of center-oriented, equally spaced
concentric circles about their central mean/medium.