Random two-dimensional patterns crop up in a wide variety of scientific contexts. What do they have in common? How can they be classified or analysed? These questions are underlined, and partly answered, by a survey of such patterns, paying particular attention to soap cell networks, metallurgical grain structures and the Giant's Causeway.
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