A laser does not always need a perfectly repeating pattern to produce a clean beam.

The ability to make custom patterns is quite helpful but learning how to make patterns that repeat seamlessly in Illustrator makes it even better. Patterns that will show where the edges repeat may ...

Remember the graph paper you used at school, the kind that's covered with tiny squares? It's the perfect illustration of what mathematicians call a "periodic tiling of space", with shapes covering an ...

From planning transportation networks to organizing massive datasets, many of society's most important challenges boil down to an optimization problem: finding the best solution among an enormous ...

Remember the graph paper you used at school, the kind that’s covered with tiny squares? It’s the perfect illustration of what mathematicians call a “periodic tiling of space”, with shapes covering an ...

Globe photographer Deborah Baic offers tips and tricks for this week's Photo Desk assignment on repeating patterns. Patterns of every shape and size surround our lives everyday, whether they are ...

When I think of patterns, the first thing that comes to mind is fabric. While Seamless Studio ($49, 15-day free trial) can certainly generate beautiful patterns for anything from blankets to ...

A seamlessly-repeating pattern fill can be an attractive background for your company website as well as fliers, business cards and other documents. Creating such a pattern can however be quite tricky ...