Wallpaper, Toro says. A repeating pattern in wallpaper can appear to recede, so the walls effectively become negative space, he explains. In fact, a pattern with plenty of white space can be ...

Morphogenesis, defined as the ensemble of mechanisms responsible for the formation of patterns and shapes ... variable curvature mediates the local sublimation and condensation rates.

It’s spinning negative space to force what you’re seeing to conform to patterns it expects, rather than being open and agnostic towards what’s really there. And so learning to draw well isn ...