Cultivation of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana under various light dimming wave patterns was compared.
The different structural motifs from 1D chain, 2D ribbons and 3D dimmer patterns were observed in the selected series.
For the All group, we also found some Bright-like patterns on top and some Dim-like patterns at the bottom - and also an area in between where neither Bright nor Dim patterns are well correlated, as would be expected.
It is a star approximately 1500 light years away from the Earth, and displays a strange pattern of dimming that has astronomers scratching their heads.
That would suggest something gigantic must be blocking the light at random times, meaning that it couldn't be a planet or other regular orbiting object because that would generate a distinct pattern of dimming light.
There was a good deal of interest in the 2004 transit as scientists attempted to measure the pattern of light dimming as Venus blocked out some of the Sun's light, in order to refine techniques that they hope to use in searching for extrasolar planets.
At first they flicker and crackle individually as if in desultory conversation, but progressively the lights combine in a virtuoso performance, dimming and brightening in geometric patterns, swooshing into a radiantly joyous chorus.
Another international collaboration called GMAN monitored the same star and saw a similar pattern of brightening and dimming, according to GMAN member David Bennett of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
Upon stimulation, individual vesicles displayed one of four distinct patterns of fluorescence change: i), disappearance, ii), dimming, iii), transient brightening, or iv), persistent brightening.
Large scale changes in weather patterns may also have been caused by global dimming.
