A common houseplant hides a pattern that may reveal how some leaf veins form. “This is a beautiful new extension of the principle that veins are optimizing across so many functions and have so much to ...
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A hidden mathematical pattern called a Voronoi diagram just turned up inside the leaves of a common houseplant
Hold a Chinese money plant up to the light and you can see its veins branching through the round, translucent leaf like rivers on a map. To most people, the pattern looks organic and loosely random.
Scientists have uncovered a hidden mathematical secret inside the leaves of the Chinese money plant: a naturally occurring geometric pattern known as a Voronoi diagram, something typically associated ...
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A plant that does math: Scientists uncover hidden Voronoi patterns inside Chinese money plant leaves
The Chinese money plant, commonly seen in homes and offices as a simple ornamental houseplant, is now drawing serious scientific attention. What looks like ordinary greenery may actually be hiding an ...
Look up at the clouds. What do you see? A sailboat? A seahorse? Your great-aunt Rosemary? As humans, we're prone to seeing patterns where they don't actually exist. This behavior is so common there's ...
The Chinese money plant, commonly seen in homes and offices as a simple ornamental houseplant, is now drawing serious scientific attention. What looks like ordinary greenery may actually be hiding an ...
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