Die Happy

"Paint as you like and die happy." -Henry Miller

An inifinitely symmetric photonic quasicrystal based upon the pattern seen in the seed head of the Sunflower. Diffracting a laser off this structure produces a circular diffraction pattern with no apparent underlying lower-order symmetry. Once again, Biomimetics provides us with a solution originally found tens of millions of years ago!

An inifinitely symmetric photonic quasicrystal based upon the pattern seen in the seed head of the Sunflower. Diffracting a laser off this structure produces a circular diffraction pattern with no apparent underlying lower-order symmetry. Once again, Biomimetics provides us with a solution originally found tens of millions of years ago!

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