Attracted To Patterns

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I see them, play with them visually and mentally. I use patterns for troubleshooting sometimes...

its probably why I am good at math.



mmmmmm...... fractals.........

I guess it explains my addiction to solitaire...

I can and still do play it for hours on end..

I've been doing that for as long as I can remember. The dots on the tiles in school buildings, veins in a leaf, mazes, fractals, the fibrous looking patterns in a person's iris, pouring milk in water, smoke... So, yes.

thank you shiggily. much enjoyed and appreciated!
could lose myself for hours in them. very soooooothing.

look for a program called (spelling I'm not sure of) Kaos Rhei, or Chaos Rei. Does fractals on command, and it's free...

I used to be but not so much anymore

well, there's the short & the long as to answering this one

in short: yes, always and all ways

in long(ish) however, that in itself is not so very uniquely autistic: human perception works through re-creation
humans see two dots slightly separated horizontally and heyho yes - those are eyes

perception works by means of 'gestalting' which could in itself be seen as creating a pattern
any form would yield a 'pattern'

but, apparently, it is autistic to be more sensitive to patternable input
maybe it is autistic to have an eye for formal repetitiveness at more levels than just the overall gestalt (the formal outline) -
which is just another way of saying we may be better at noticing patterns in patterns

i am not convinced whether Millies emoticons line-up would fall under the stereotypical autistic patternizing -
i think symmetry is the key to that one
agreed, symmetry is indeed a pattern - but that is not why Millie needed to get (more) symmetrical
i would rather think symmetry provides something like formal calmth, peace, justness, completeness

symmetry provides a completed pattern that can be left to its own, and said au revoir to

i, as very many unconsciously do too, have it also in the perception of written text:
the spaces between words will form vertical lines, that are usually deemed ugly, and distracting to the read, which is deeply true

but this can be turned around and used creatively - i have produced a number of texts, including an English translation of my Industrial Safety textbook that went completely out of control in combining normal writing with textual drawing-not-by-numbers-but-by-spaces, and other usage of textual white

this is not DTP - this is what i call 'text styling', with no more than basic textprocessing functionality (as i am a computer moron);
sadly, it requires much more control over the 'page' than WP posting seems to have an offer

and on WP: WordPerfect was much better at being a complying secretary
it is also the main reason for the intensity of my hatred for MicroSoft - Word does things on its own - i am always in a continuous struggle with the computer doing things not as i want them
Word can also be so unstable

for as long as i can remember

i wish i could make it a job ...
http://www.coroflot.com/public/individu ... id=133949&

I see patterns everywhere - especially in the world around me. Patterns formed by intersecting roads and bridges, metalwork on bridges and how it aligns with the buildings and other structure around it. Patterns formed by horizons, buildings, trees, hedges, roads....

Everywhere!