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Institute of Science and Technology Austria

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Close-up of simulated sand with “dodecafang”-shaped grains. These grains have twelve fang-like extensions that can become strongly entangled, even making a sandcastle unusually tough.

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© Chen et al., ACM Transactions on Graphics

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