#aperiodic patterns

[sinsism]

Straight from the studies

The beauty of " A Mysterious Design That Appears Across Millennia"

In this quick TED Talk, Terry Moore explores Penrose tiling: two simple shapes that cover any surface infinitely, yet never repeat. Discovered by Roger Penrose, this aperiodic pattern mysteriously appears in ancient Islamic art, medieval manuscripts, and modern science across isolated cultures.For artists, it’s electric inspiration. From basic elements springs endless originality, mirroring the universe’s harmonious chaos.

https://www.ted.com/speakers/terry_moore

https://sinsism.tumblr.com/

[kleeirwin]

The finding for which this year’s Chemistry Nobel was awarded earlier today was sufficiently unexpected and counter to the orthodoxy of the time that today’s prize winner was tossed out…

“...prior to Shechtman’s empirical discovery of what was to become known as Quasicrystals, mathematicians were messing around with a concept called aperiodic mosaics (or aperiodic patterns). Early on this concept was applied, literally, to mosaics, but eventually to atoms. The math behind aperiodic mosaics was mainly solved by Roger Penrose, a British mathematician, in the 1970s. Later, a crystallographer, Alan Mackay, applied the concept of aperiodic mosaics to atoms using a theoretical model in which he came up with a 10-fold symmetry in a diffraction study of a large scale crystal model (but not actual crystals). “