Scientists discover weird new kind of shape found in nature

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Originally published at: Scientists discover weird new kind of shape found in nature - Boing Boing

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Wow, where were they 30+ years ago?

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Nautili being naughty

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But bubbles

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This is very cool, but at the risk of being too grumpypants, “Nature abhors sharp corners” is more poetry than true statement. Nature does a lot of 2D tessellation with sharp corners.

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Yeah, what about crystals? Pyrite can form near perfect cubes.

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This could make for some interesting building materials for earthquake resilience. A material that has equal shearing strength in all directions must be grail-like.

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Came for the '80s music reference. Left happy.

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