Example Image from Project to Develop a Periodic Table of Shapes (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

Imperial College London

Example Image from Project to Develop a Periodic Table of Shapes (1 of 2)

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Mathematicians are creating their own version of the periodic table that will provide a vast directory of all the possible shapes in the universe across three, four and five dimensions, linking shapes together in the same way as the periodic table links groups of chemical elements. This image shows a slice through one such shape -- a cubic threefold.

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