When humans cover a space using tiles of the same shape without overlap or gaps—a geometrical process called tiling—we will usually opt for a shape with sharp corners and straight lines, like squares ...

Hard as it may be to imagine, there’s a newly defined geometric shape on the books. Based on recent calculations, mathematicians have described a new classification they now call a “soft cell.” ...

soft cell 1 Articles . 3D Space Can Be Tiled With Corner-free Shapes. November 23, 2024 by Donald Papp 28 Comments . Tiling a space with a repeated pattern that has no gaps or overlaps (a ...