In 2015, Pedro Reis, a mechanical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, described physical laws for the geometric patterns that form on deflated silicon balls.

Published in Thin-Walled Structures, the study relied on numerical analysis and physical experiments, and led its authors to propose an unprecedented rib pattern inspired by dragonfly wings, which ...

Now that the pattern is clear, we can apply it to the final equation (8 + 6 = ?). According to the sequence, the multiplier should now be 5. The sum of 8 + 6 is 14.