Soap, cells and statistics—random patterns in two dimensions
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Contemporary Physics
- Vol. 25 (1), 59-99
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00107518408210979
Abstract
Random two-dimensional patterns crop up in a wide variety of scientific contexts. What do they have in common? How can they be classified or analysed? These questions are underlined, and partly answered, by a survey of such patterns, paying particular attention to soap cell networks, metallurgical grain structures and the Giant's Causeway.Keywords
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