Looking for patterns Here we have a square, a circle and a triangle. We're going to use them to form a pattern. This is the pattern formed by the shapes. Can you work out what the missing shapes are?

In a 2D the answer is two, and a 3D space can be tiled in shapes that have no corners at all, called soft cells. These shapes can be made in a few different ways, and some are shown here.

Discover how to create repeated patterns using 2D shapes in this fun BBC Bitesize reception guide.

Back in 1999, Erik Demaine was a PhD student who created an algorithm that determined the folding patterns necessary to turn a piece of paper into any 3D shape. However, the algorithm was far from ...

Carnegie Mellon researchers have created a method that generates knitting patterns for arbitrary 3D shapes, opening the possibility of “on-demand knitting.” Think 3D printing, but softer.