these aren’t quite the good examples I was looking for— but the celled textures left by Sapsucker Woodpeckers are exquisite

charts of symbols - Bob Waardenburg

worksheets for sculpture - Isamu Noguchi

tumultuously ringed line drawings - Atsuko Tanaka

Patterns Imagined on Mars - Edward Barnard 1894

Patterns Imagined on Mars - Giovanni Schiaperelli c.1880s

Patterns Imagined on Mars - Percival Lowell c. 1910’s

checkered venous patterns - Roni Horn

long exposure fireflies - Yuki Karo

(via feed-well)

striking variants of chalcedony

pattern & cortical lamination

well-patterned spatial surfaces

typology, texture and postmodernism in new Troy - Philip Turner

5 elements artificially & dendritically crystallized

imaging stone micro-structures - 1 - Tom Phillips