Soap Bubbles on the Roof of the Met
The Weaire-Phelan soap bubble foam counterexample to Kelvin’s Conjecture is the latest art exhibit on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (photo from New York Times article). It is conjectured to divide space into unit-volume chambers with the least amount of material. It was also used for the Beijing Olympic Water Cube. For more on the Kelvin Conjecture, see my blog at the Huffington Post.
Note added 8 July 2012. Rob Kusner pointed out this canopy, designed by Giancarlo Mazzanti, in Bogotá, Columbia, reported by Michael Kimmelman in The New York Times.
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