This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Look at giraffe’s fur and you’ll see a ...

THE Society of Glass Technology began a two days anniversary meeting on November 9 to celebrate its Coming of Age. The proceedings opened with a luncheon that was attended by the vice-chancellor of ...

Tile patterns in which the same shape is laid out without gaps can be seen on castle walls and chess boards in artificial objects, and in insect compound eyes and beehives in biology. Square tiles are ...

Surface tessellations are an arrangement of shapes which are tightly fitted, and form repeat patterns on a surface without overlapping. Imagine the pattern of a giraffe's fur, the shell of a tortoise ...

When you place points randomly, they don't actually spread out very well. Some areas become clustered, while others are left ...

Upper panel: spin configuration of a skyrmion. Lower panel: Voronoi tessellation of representative skyrmion lattice configurations in the solid, the hexatic and the liquid phases respectively.

A 3D Voronoi tessellation is the initial step in developing a finite element model, a computational framework that enables mechanical property testing and analysis for further fungi research.