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avadakabitch on December 12nd, 2019 at 14:25 UTC »

How is this mildly, this is fucking awesome

An_Old_IT_Guy on December 12nd, 2019 at 14:30 UTC »

I've been staring at this for longer than I want to say trying to figure out how those patterns are created by overlapping circles.

gradi3nt on December 12nd, 2019 at 15:21 UTC »

This effect is actually a hot topic in physics right now. If you misalign 2d crystals, like the arrays of holes are misaligned, you can change the properties of the materials in exciting ways:

Magic angle grahpene:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07848-2