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 ...
take a break from your hot cocoa and consider nature’s ice-cold architecture. When water molecules chill down, they assemble into a myriad of spectacular shapes from simple hexagons to star ...