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  • noun mathematics An infinitely connected periodic minimal surface containing no straight lines

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Examples

  • I leave notes on bulletin boards, I leave smart greetings with my "gyroid" a sort of permanent proxy character that sits at my house doorstep.

    April 2005 2005

  • I leave notes on bulletin boards, I leave smart greetings with my "gyroid" a sort of permanent proxy character that sits at my house doorstep.

    A Place By Any Other Name 2005

  • The surface is an offset of the approximation of the minimal surface called gyroid.

    iMechanica - Comments Erkan Oterkus 2010

  • The surface is an offset of the approximation of the minimal surface called gyroid.

    iMechanica - Comments R. Gabbrielli 2010

  • Solid Free Forming techniques are various and many of them can be used to build samples with complex topology, such as the gyroid.

    iMechanica - Comments Erkan Oterkus 2010

  • This post was about the gyroid, which little has to do with foams

    iMechanica - Comments R. Gabbrielli 2010

  • But since my pockets were full of all kinds of miscellaneous crap, Kid Cat couldn't just hand my my gyroid prize, so I had to get it in the mail the next day.

    GayGamer.net 2010

  • Solid Free Forming techniques are various and many of them can be used to build samples with complex topology, such as the gyroid.

    iMechanica - Comments R. Gabbrielli 2010

  • This post was about the gyroid, which little has to do with foams

    iMechanica - Comments Erkan Oterkus 2010

  • When you have accepted, a new menu will open, and you will be able to give him a gyroid to store for you.

    IGN Complete 2009

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  • "The gyroids are made of chitin, a polymer used in insect exoskeletons, secreted by wing cells that fold naturally into gyroid shape. After cells die and decompose, the chitin shells remain. Light refracts through them, with subtle variations in gyroid shape and proportion producing different hues."

    From Butterfly Wing Colors Come From Space-Age Structures by Brandon Keim, Wired Science, June 14, 2010.

    June 16, 2010