They can be seen in clouds, heard in noises, grasped by contemplating and exposing ones gaze. We associate shapes and forms with them, yet their intrinsic dynamic unfolds only by applying their given ruleset again. And again and again.
The book Design Patterns revived a conversation in software development around what Christopher Alexander had originally conceived as architectural Pattern Languages. While a reappropriation of these terms can be witnessed within the Commons movement, aspirations of a New Kind of Science still lack a proof of isomorphic mappings between Generative Patterns, Cellular Automata and Deterministic Systems.