meta-Tao breaks

Vladimir Kush, Sunrise by the ocean

The next metapattern discussed by Tyler Volk and Jeff Bloom are breaks:

Background

Transformations; change; leaps; shifts; sequences of stages; dilemmas and decisions.

Examples

• In science: chemical reactions, metamorphosis, evolutionary change (punctuated equilibrium), energy transformations, phenotypic plasticity, point of change from action to reaction, waterfalls, branching, etc.

• In architecture and design: divisions of space and activity, vehicle brakes, etc.

• In art: perceptual shifts, design changes, etc.

• In social sciences: insights, stages in development, events that change psychosocial states, etc.

• In other senses: divorce, death, birth, marriage, crashing waves, breakthroughs, etc.

Metapatterns

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