Nature

NOTE: Article in Progress

Symmetry

Ordering

Modeling and Rendering

• Mountains
• Snow
• Seas, Lakes
• Rocks
• Trees: 3 trillion trees in the world²
• Wood wide web^3,4
• Role of nature in global sanitation⁵, especially wastewater processing.

Evolution: diversity of nature, millions of species of ants and termites, thousands of animals. Nature made this choice to ensure that life survives in any form, from microbes to giant mammals. Some able to survive for millions of years and some became extinct.

• Complexity Emerging from Simplicity

References

1. Nature
2. Earth home to 3 trillion trees, half as many as when human civilization arose
3. ‘Wood wide web’—the underground network of microbes that connects trees—mapped for first time
4. Wood wide web: Trees' social networks are mapped
5. Global study of 48 cities finds nature sanitizes 41.7 million tons of human waste a year