This maze of jagged curls looks like something out of the world’s hardest puzzle book. How fast do you think you can solve it?
Stuck? Don’t worry. It’s actually more of a connect the dots puzzle.
The labyrinthine black path is the shortest nonintersecting route to connect every point on a kaleidoscopic, “quasicrystalline” surface, researchers report July 10 in Physical Review X.
Shobhna Singh, a theoretical physicist at Cardiff University in Wales and her colleagues examined a type of pattern known as an Ammann-Beenker tiling, which fills a two-dimensional space using square- and rhombus-shaped tiles. Like some kaleidoscope images, Amman-Beenker tilings are organized but the pattern doesn’t repeat itself
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