Back in 2001, a profound discussion was held in ANU’s beautiful Unihouse gardens about how useful a bicontinuous bottle, a bottle internally subdivided by a minimal surface into two domains, could be. One channel for each of your favourite drinks, or one for olive oil and one for vinegar. Read more
Check out this New York Times article about Sabetta Matsumoto’s amazing work. (I am not associated with this work, but love it).
An animation of the Gyroid phase in (computational) assemblies of pear-shaped colloidal particles. Click here for the animation. This is an animation produced by Philipp Schönhöfer, as part of his postgraduate research
Here’s a lovely animation created by Stuart Ramsden (ANU) around the time when we were trying to commercialise a toy puzzle version of the Gyroid (which we had dubbed ‘InfiniTiles’). While the puzzle never really got off the ground (at least not yet, although we do have both an injection moulded and a 3D printed prototype), the animation is amazing. Read more
A video of tomographic data of a real experimental wet sphere pack. Read more
I am grateful to Greg Grason for organising a very interesting “Chirality in Polymers and Soft Matter” focus session at the APS March Meeting 2019. For those interested in my talk slides, I’ve uploaded them at the APS site, click here.
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Models of the single and double gyroid, clipped within a 14-sided polyhedron.
