MARCUS DU SAUTOY:The soap bubble reveals something fundamental about nature ... the same size a rather magical shape start to appear MARCUS DU SAUTOY:The hexagon. MARCUS DU SAUTOY:'This leaves ...
and hexagons in the plane and cubes and other polyhedral in three-dimensional space are built with sharp corners and flat faces. However, many tilings in nature are characterized by shapes with ...
When it comes to snow flakes, you may have heard that no two snow flakes are alike. In nature that especially true. But how can that be when billions of flakes ...