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  Daniel Piker January 28, 2010 at 12:05pm

  Cool, that's just the sort of thing I was thinking of. Very interesting thanks.
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  Ruggero Gabbrielli January 28, 2010 at 11:30am

  Of course it could. I'm not sure what panelization means but you might find Greg Turk's pages interesting.
  http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~turk/reaction_diffusion/reaction_diffusio...
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  Daniel Piker January 28, 2010 at 11:08am

  Here is the link to that Plus article:
  http://plus.maths.org/latestnews/sep-dec09/bubbles/index.html
  None of the animations in that video you link to are mine, but I do know Stephen Hyde's work, and it has been an inspiration.
  The applets on Michael Cross' site are very nice. I wonder if something similar could be used on a curved surface to find panelizations.
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  Ruggero Gabbrielli January 28, 2010 at 8:22am

  Hi Daniel, I recognized your gyroid animation. I can't recall where I saw it but I defintely did. Are any of the animations in the video below yours?
  http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/2526116.htm
  I didn't know I was on Plus magazine. Could you send me a link to the article?
  I'm using grasshopper mainly to share ideas with people, I think it is great for this purpose. Research travel on other channels, though. Michael Cross' website was the source of inspiration for my research.
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  Daniel Piker January 28, 2010 at 6:32am

  Hi Ruggero, great to see you here on Grasshopper. I've been following your work with interest since reading about it in Plus magazine. The work with the Swift-Hohenberg equation is incredible. Do you think Weaire-Phelan might actually be beatable ? ;)
  I share some of your interests in pattern formation and gyroid related structures, and look forward to seeing what you come up with next. Are you using grasshopper in your research ?
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  Norbert Palz September 29, 2009 at 2:04am

  hello ruggero,
  very interesting work on your site, i will look into it later in depth. the auxetic knot is based on roderick lakes concept from the late 70 ies. see here.http://silver.neep.wisc.edu/~lakes/PoissonEduc.pdf it bears strong resemblance to the surface that you have pointed to, but is more irregular in the space that it circumscribes.
  best norbert