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Art, Writing, and Learning: The Clerisy Quarter => Arts, Crafts, Music & Drama - The Artisans' Guilds => Topic started by: Jubal on January 20, 2016, 09:11:56 PM

Title: Pretty things made with aluminium
Post by: Jubal on January 20, 2016, 09:11:56 PM
Just saw this and thought it was cool :)

Title: Re: Pretty things made with aluminium
Post by: Glaurung on January 21, 2016, 12:37:25 AM
Pretty things, with added Science! :)

What caught my eye was how often hexagonal shapes showed up in the castings - a side-effect of the "hexagonal close packing" of the balls, which is the most compact way to stack a load of identical spheres.