Soft cell 1 wire (IMAGE)

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Soft cell 1 wire

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Edge skeleton of the soft version of the truncated octahedron, a space-filling polyhedron. This soft cell fills space without gaps but has no sharp corners. The faces (not shown) are minimal surfaces, which could be represented by soap films. 

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Krisztina Regős and Gábor Domokos

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