Coxetering Crystals

Year: 2005 Authors: Marjorie Senechal

Core claim

Coxeter’s ideas on symmetry and models made polytopes, crystal forms, and nonperiodic tilings mutually illuminating, with continuing relevance to real crystal structures.

Topics

symmetry, crystallography, nonperiodic tilings, quasicrystals

Domains

polyhedra, tessellations, symmetry groups, higher-dimensional geometry, picture booklet, scientific illustration, model-based visualization, industrial design

Methods

historical commentary, photographic plates, diagrammatic notation, model comparison

Media

crystal drawings, photographs, plastic rhombohedra, mirror kaleidoscope

Source status

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