Pattern

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A Pattern is an Entity that can be used by an Agent to Detect or Create an Artifact.



References

2013

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern
    • A pattern, apart from the term's use to mean “Template"Template:Efn, is a discernible regularity in the world or in a manmade design. As such, the elements of a pattern repeat in a predictable manner.

      Any of the five senses may directly observe patterns. Conversely, abstract patterns in science, mathematics, or language may be observable only by analysis. Direct observation in practice means seeing visual patterns, which are widespread in nature and in art. Visual patterns in nature are often chaotic, never exactly repeating, and often involve fractals. Natural patterns include spirals, meanders, waves, foams, tilings, cracks, and those created by symmetries of rotation and reflection. All such patterns have an underlying mathematical structure; indeed, mathematics can be seen as the search for regularities, and the output of any function is a mathematical pattern. Similarly in the sciences, theories explain and predict regularities in the world.

      In art and architecture, decorations or visual motifs may be combined and repeated to form patterns designed to have a chosen effect on the viewer. In computer science, a software design pattern is a known solution to a class of problems in programming. In fashion, the pattern is a template used to create any number of similar garments.


2009

  • http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pattern
    • that from which a copy is made; design, motif or decoration formed from multiple copies of an original fitted together; arrangement of objects ...
  • WordNet.
    • form: a perceptual structure; "the composition presents problems for students of musical form"; "a visual pattern must include not only objects ...
    • practice: a customary way of operation or behavior; "it is their practice to give annual raises"; "they changed their dietary pattern"
    • design: a decorative or artistic work; "the coach had a design on the doors"
    • convention: something regarded as a normative example; "the convention of not naming the main character"; "violence is the rule not the exception"; "his formula for impressing visitors"
    • a model considered worthy of imitation; "the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics"
    • blueprint: something intended as a guide for making something else; "a blueprint for a house"; "a pattern for a skirt"
    • model: plan or create according to a model or models
    • traffic pattern: the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport; "the traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded"; "they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted"
    • form a pattern; "These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before"