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A public lecture has been presented within the framework of Celebration of Hungarian Science (“Magyar tudomány ünnepe”) by Sándor Bozóki. The lecture (in Hungarian) is available at the following link:
Proof of non-existence of mono-unstable polyhedra by means of inequalities (Monoinstabil poliéderek nemlétezésének igazolása egyenlőtlenségekkel)
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A public lecture has been presented within the framework of Celebration of Hungarian Science (“Magyar tudomány ünnepe”) by András Sipos. The lecture (in Hungarian) is available at the following link:
Geometry and evolution of shapes in Nature (Geometria és alakfejlődés a természetben)
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Krisztina Regős, PhD student of the Morphodynamics Research Group was mentioned among the top 30 of most successful people under 30 in Hungary by Forbes.
Congratulations!
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The “Gömböc” is on permanent display since 17th April, 2023 at Pompidou Centre, Paris. The largest copy of Gömböc ever made of a single piece of material was introduced in the presence of one of its inventors, Gábor Domokos.
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An interview with Krisztina Regős, graduate student of the Faculty of Architecture of BME and her supervisor, Gábor Domokos has recently been published at forbes.hu.
The conversation reveals how Gömböc inspires young researchers, specifically how this discovery influenced Krisztina’s further research.
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The Gomboc simulation software – whose name was chosen after the Gömböc of Gábor Domokos and Péter Várkonyi – played a crucial role in the the 36th America’s cup.
Read more (in Hungarian): A MAGYAR GÖMBÖCRŐL ELNEVEZETT GOMBOC SZOFTVERREL DIADALMASKODOTT A GYŐZTES CSAPAT A VILÁG LEGELITEBB VITORLÁSVERSENYÉN
An article about the Gomboc software in the 35th America’s cup (in English): Gomboc: A design high-flier for ETNZ
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Science Magazine included the paper “Plato’s cube and the natural geometry of fragmentation” in the top 10 non-covid science news stories of 2020.
List of the top 10 science news stories of 2020:
Top news stories of 2020
Podcast episode:
Breakthrough of the Year, top online news, and science book highlights (9:36 – 12:40)
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An outstanding article from Joshua Sokol Scientists Uncover the Universal Geometry of Geology about the paper “Plato’s cube and the natural geometry of fragmentation” in Quanta Magazine.
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Plato’s cube and the natural geometry of fragmentation
G. Domokos, D.J. Jerolmack, F. Kun, J. Török
arxiv:1912.04628
Abstract: Plato envisioned Earth’s building blocks as cubes, a shape rarely found in nature. The solar system is littered, however, with distorted polyhedra—shards of rock and ice produced by ubiquitous fragmentation. We apply the theory of convex mosaics to show that the average geometry of natural two-dimensional (2D) fragments, from mud cracks to Earth’s tectonic plates, has two attractors: “Platonic” quadrangles and “Voronoi” hexagons. In three dimensions (3D), the Platonic attractor is dominant: Remarkably, the average shape of natural rock fragments is cuboid. When viewed through the lens of convex mosaics, natural fragments are indeed geometric shadows of Plato’s forms. Simulations show that generic binary breakup drives all mosaics toward the Platonic attractor, explaining the ubiquity of cuboid averages. Deviations from binary fracture produce more exotic patterns that are genetically linked to the formative stress field. We compute the universal pattern generator establishing this link, for 2D and 3D fragmentation.
The article was followed by increased media attention. Here is a list of the international and national mentions of the MTA-BME Morphodynamics Research Group: Media mentions.
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Interesting natural phenomenon explained on index by our research group.
Figure: Ooid sand from The Bahamas.
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The paper Explaining the Elongated Shape of ‘Oumuamua by the Eikonal Abrasion Mode (Gábor Domokos, András Á. Sipos, Gyula M. Szabó, Péter L. Várkonyi) was followed by increased media attention. It was mentioned on both national and international websites such as newsweek.com, bbc.com, hirado.hu.
