Material Science Engineering 490: Independant study on quasicrystalline stacking in three dimensional space using polyhedra with five fold symmetry in virtual reality

I set out with a task to investigate quasicrystals in three dimensional space, using visualiztion tools at the University of Michigan Virtual Reality Laboratory.
I was first intrigued with the problem back in school when reading about Penrose tiles in a Discover magazine article (Feb 1990). I wanted to try to a new way of trying to find a solution to this forbidden geometry. Quasicrystals in crystallography are very much like the mammals that lay eggs. The platypuses of the material science world, with its fivefold symmetry defying old rules of crystal structures.

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JAVA models
(You don't need a plug-in for this)

VRML 1.0 models
(You need a browser that supports VRML 1.0)

VRML 2.0 models
(You need a browser that supports VRML 2.0)


Last Update: May 01, 1997

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