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Quasicrystals are highly structured patterns which are not periodic. Unlike the crystalline structure of e.g. hexagons, a quasicrystal will never line up perfectly with a shifted copy of itself. Here such a structure is created as the interference pattern between 7 waves approaching the centre of the image at equal angles. The discovery of quasicrystals in chemical compounds won a Nobel prize in 2011. [more] [code]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/1f112e5613e0e26d33518db2260f5ed8/tumblr_mnill8OlkG1qfg7o3o1_r1_400.gif)
Quasicrystals are highly structured patterns which are not periodic. Unlike the crystalline structure of e.g. hexagons, a quasicrystal will never line up perfectly with a shifted copy of itself. Here such a structure is created as the interference pattern between 7 waves approaching the centre of the image at equal angles. The discovery of quasicrystals in chemical compounds won a Nobel prize in 2011. [more] [code]
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