Detail of a bronze sculpture showing triangles joined in an aperiodic pattern, reminiscent of a glassy atomic structure.
#BraggYourPattern Seoul Edition #3: detail of a bronze sculpture at Ewha Womans University. amorphous in a way, crystalline in another... Depending on the wavelength ✨
A model of a C70 molecule, made of plastic atoms and bonds. Those representing carbon are black and are joined by grey bonds. The structure is oval overall
Writing instructions for a C70 structure from our Crystal Explorer kits. Australians... am I ok to say that the result 'will be closer to a footy ball than a soccer ball' (translating from my UK raised brain footy=oval ball) #BraggYourPattern
A wall of square grey stones, but everything is tilted by 45° for some cool reason.
#BraggYourPattern Seoul Edition #2: a... "45° stone wall"? Not quite sure how to call it but I questioned my cartesian reference for a second... Spotted in Namsan Sky Forest trail.
A wall of rectangular stones, well packed despite having all different size, larger at the bottom, gradually smaller towards the top. Many light grey, some sand-yellow with a rose hue.
#BraggYourPattern Seoul Edition #1: it must have taken an incredible patience to make this packing masterpiece decorating Sungnyemun Gate 🌺
The Romans were clearly on to something #BraggYourPattern
We just crossed the milestone of the 500th school to sign up for their crystal explorer kit!! #BraggYourPattern
Save the Date poster for the Crystal36-AXAA 2026 Conference on the 29 Nov- 2 Dec 2026 in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia. A picture of vineyards is in the background
Attention crystallographers and X-ray Analysts of Australia and New Zealand!!
The SCANZ/AXXA conference this year will be in my beautiful home state of South Aus (I'm not biased at all 😉).
Save the date! 💎
#BraggYourPattern #Ozchem
A fragment of the Garnet Room from Granatium museum, consisting from hexagonal tiles.
#BraggYourPattern from Granatium museum in Austria, a fragment of the Garnet Room wall.
What did you do today? I added plane waves.
#BraggYourPattern
Image of patterns in the sand in the intertidal zone. The sandscape fills the image, and there are regular wave patterns in it. For a sense of scale there are two white shells in one of the divots in the sand.
Yes I'm the weirdo that goes to the beach for the patterns #BraggYourPattern
The GingerBread Instruments is back after last year hiatus (blame on flamingos).
#chemchat, can you determine the wallpaper group?
#crystallography #BraggYourPattern
Congrats! A whole new culture to explore #BraggYourPattern in!
Oooo a most excellent #BraggYourPattern
Another one for #BraggYourPattern
And here we have our Fourier transform nr. 58! As far as I'm concerned, perhaps the most enigmatic and unexpected spectrum so far... anyway, quite a spectacle! #BraggYourPattern #Fouriertransform #crystallography
As always, more on behance.net/specialdefects and instagram.com/specialdefects
Spiral of segments resembling a whirlpool. Each segment has a different shade of grey, creating an optical illusion where the sequence of segments appear gradually tilting.
While playing around with shapes I discovered another optical illusion: it looks like it's tilting while going inwards, doesn't it... 🧐 it's not — check the corners. Its Fourier spectrum is really unlike anything I've seen so far... will post it soon. #BraggYourPattern
A bit of an #outreach win today - orders from Flinders Island, a remote island off the coast of Tasmania, for both a Crystal Explorer Kit (for their primary students) and an Elements Set (for their secondary students)! #elementsets #crystallography #ozchem #BraggYourPattern
A nearly isotropic pattern of lines irradiating from the centre. The colour scheme is a fresh combination of teal, light violet and blue on a white background.
Time for a new 57th entry in my #Reciprocart gallery! This time we look at the frequency spectrum of a Hyperbolic tiling of triangles 📐 Unsurprisingly (for the experienced) it's a bunch of lines... but the hexagonal symmetry is visible if one looks close enough 🧐 #crystallography #Braggyourpattern
Interpenetrated dodecahedrons made out of lolly cubes and toothpicks
Stuart Battern standing in front of slide with 2025 Chemistry Nobel Prize winners on it in lecture theatre
Day one of our 2025 Crystallography Workshop! Featuring a special pop-up talk from @sbattenresearch.bsky.social about this year's chemistry Nobel Prize, and outreach training where everyone could make their own lolly crystal structure 🍭💎 @crystallised-cricket.com #BraggYourPattern #OzChem
Picture shows a painting from a wall at a hotel, It depicts fish that are stylised so that they geometrically fit as tiles. Fish in the background are black and while and are tightly packet together - in front of these are similar style fish but these are coloured in - green bodies and orange fins and tails.
Still making my mind up if this is a good #BraggYourPattern or not - nice nod to Escher, but sort of annoys me the colour fish are sitting above the tiled layer!
Rampant #pseudosymmetry... #Braggyourpattern
