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No real pattern is perfect. Dislocations (in rolls), disclinations (in hexagons), and spiral cores (in excitable media) are defects that control pattern dynamics. The motion of defects underlies annealing, coarsening, and pattern selection. Reading "Defects in Liquid Crystals" by Kleman provides a transferable framework.

Diverse systems often exhibit similar patterns due to shared underlying mathematical structures. Pattern Formation and Dynamics in Nonequibrium Systems pattern formation and dynamics in nonequilibrium systems pdf