We (Myself, Gábor Domokos, Krisztina Regős and Ákos G. Horváth from the Budapest University of Technology) discovered a new class of mathematical shape called soft cells. These shapes tile space without gaps and have a minimal number of sharp corners and edges. Remarkably, these ideal soft shapes, born out of purely mathematical considerations, are found abundantly in nature. Read the team’s paper here (published in PNAS Nexus).
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