The labyrinthine fractal is based on movements in chess and strange crystal structures found in the physical world.
Quasicrystals are unusual materials in which the atoms are arranged in regular patterns that nonetheless never repeat themselves. Most are man-made in the lab; only one case of naturally occurring quasicrystals has been found thus far. And now physicists believe they’ve figured out how that happened. In a paper published today in the Proceedings of…
Almost 30 years after Daniel Shechtman noticed something weird in his lab, he finally won a Nobel Prize for chemistry. But before that, his strange discovery resulted in him being asked to leave the lab for bringing disgrace upon his colleagues. What caused all this upheaval? An odd pattern. Nothing more. See how a seemingly…
