A pattern was repeated design.
The surroundings of the non-world (PROSE: Games [+]Warwick Gray, Brief Encounters (Marvel Comics UK, 1992). Page 22.) known as the Shadow Dimensions (TV: The Curse of Fenric [+]Ian Briggs, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989)., etc.) were formed from bleak shifting patterns. When the Mandarin arrived in this location and began playing a game of four dimensional chess with the Entity, the board's pattern shifted several times during the opening gambit. (PROSE: Games [+]Warwick Gray, Brief Encounters (Marvel Comics UK, 1992). Page 22.)