Quasipatterns

A quasipattern is an unfinished pattern that can be one of several different patterns when fully realized. A simple example is two lines joined at a vertex like so:

This is a quasipattern because it can be completed into a triangle

Or a quadrilateral

Of course, any pattern can be considered to be either a quasipattern or a completed pattern based on the surrounding context and observer purpose. A collective intelligence constructs behavior by turning locally completed patterns into quasipatterns at the global scale. Scaling a Self might be thought of as a problem of scaling patterns into quasipatterns. (Based on possibilities given by Platonic space?)

Quasipatterns are useful for acting systems because they can swiftly be transformed into one of many completed patterns for some task via the process of multiconstruction.