I am an architecture student researching into quasicrystals with the hope of applying it to form a complex truss system. I was wondering if anyone new of a formula for the structure? thanks in advance.
Jake
I am an architecture student researching into quasicrystals with the hope of applying it to form a complex truss system. I was wondering if anyone new of a formula for the structure? thanks in advance.
Jake
Certainly there is no formula. However, take a look at http://www.tau.ac.il/~ronlif/quasicrystals.html and the book Marjorie Senechal, "Quasicrystals and geometry" (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995).
http://books.google.com/books/about/Quasicrystals_and_geometry.html?id=LdQ8AAAAIAAJ
as well as
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasicrystal
I do not see that any macroscopic use in engineering is possible at this time. There are algorithms to produce Penrose tilings correctly, but those are two dimensional patterns.