Abstract:
The beauties of appearance of shape and structure are explored from natural world to scientific area. And we pay more attention to the physics regularity and application value containing in the form and pattern. As the nonlinear science appears, the study of form and pattern becomes the focus of science research again. It can grow into some special morphologies in nonequilibrium condition such as skeleton crystals and dendrites and so on. In this article, some theories and different types of the patterns formation are reviewed.

Key words: selfassembly, morphogenesis, crystallography, nonequilibrium condition, biomineralization