Close-up of simulated sand with “hexapod”-shaped grains (IMAGE)

Institute of Science and Technology Austria

Close-up of simulated sand with “hexapod”-shaped grains

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Close-up of simulated sand with “hexapod”-shaped grains. Hexapod grains form sand that can hold its shape in surprising ways without being extremely cohesive.

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© Chen et al., ACM Transactions on Graphics

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