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?

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.