2025.01.24

Tessellation Revelation

Mathematicians have discovered a new kind of shape with connections to nature and art

Photographs of 3D-printed shapes show soft cells derived from space filling polyhedra. Blue is derived from a truncated octahedron, pink is from a hexagonal prism and green is from a cube. | Jelle Wagenaar

Photographs of 3D-printed shapes show soft cells derived from space filling polyhedra. Blue is derived from a truncated octahedron, pink is from a hexagonal prism and green is from a cube. | Jelle Wagenaar

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