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Mathematicians discover a new kind of shape that’s all over nature (3D tessellating forms)
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- Title
- Newly Discovered Shape Is a Tessellation Revelation
- Authors
- Elise Cutts
- Published
- Dec 1 2024
- Word count
- 3485 words
I love to read interesting, well-communicated articles about math and science. Sharing this one here because of its convergence of math, nature, and design. The gist is a recent mathematical paper describes 3D shapes with no hard corners that fit together to uniformly fill space and how the authors began to identify the shapes in the natural world and even among some architectural designs.
Here's the publicly-available full text: https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/3/9/pgae311/7754698?login=false
I always love repeating geometry. I went down a massive rabbit hole with triply-periodic minimal surfaces a couple years back which made for some pretty neat shapes.
I'll have to try my hand at modeling some of these to 3D print and mess around with like futuristic Lincoln Logs.
Make sure to share the .stl if you do.
Archive URL: https://archive.is/b8iAz