periodic-cell
A network with no boundary at all
The kagome lattice, drawn out to 5 cells across and continuing for ever. The measurement is made on one cell: 3 joints, 6 bars, and a bar that leaves the cell comes back into it, written against the far end's position in the neighbouring cell. There is no boundary anywhere in the arithmetic, and the size of the network has gone from being a parameter to not existing. The highlighted triangle is the cell; every other line on the page is a copy of one of its six bars. positioned by solving, not by drawing.
Where it is used
- The cell that repeats for ever Many of one thing
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