https://bradleycarey.com/tags/quasicrystals/ Recent content in Quasicrystals on bradleycarey.com Hugo en Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:21:48 -0500 https://bradleycarey.com/posts/quasicrystals-in-your-browser/ Sat, 12 Apr 2025 17:50:42 -0500 https://bradleycarey.com/posts/quasicrystals-in-your-browser/ <h1 id="click-here-to-view-the-interactive-demo"> <a href="https://bradleycarey.com/quasicrystals/" >Click here to view the interactive demo</a> <a class="heading-link" href="#click-here-to-view-the-interactive-demo"> <i class="fa-solid fa-link" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to heading"></i> <span class="sr-only">Link to heading</span> </a> </h1> <p>Epilepsy warning: The demo contains rapidly changing patterns and colors which may trigger seizures in susceptible individuals.</p> <p>What is a quasicrystal? From <a href="https://blog.matthen.com/post/51566631087/quasicrystals-are-highly-structured-patterns-which" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matthias Matthiesen</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Quasicrystals are highly structured patterns which are not periodic. Unlike the crystalline structure of e.g. hexagons, a quasicrystal will never line up perfectly with a shifted copy of itself. Here such a structure is created as the interference pattern between 7 waves approaching the centre of the image at equal angles. The 2011 Nobel prize in Chemistry was awarded for the discovery of quasicrystals in chemical compounds.</p>