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UK - Nottingham - Exxopolis Luminarium - The Cupola 07

Including stained glass (stained plastic ?) windows inspired by the designs of Roger Penrose, the Cupola of the Exxopolis Luminarium was an impressive place.

 

From Wikipedia : "Penrose is well known for his 1974 discovery of Penrose tilings, which are formed from two tiles that can only tile the plane nonperiodically, and are the first tilings to exhibit fivefold rotational symmetry. Penrose developed these ideas based on the article Deux types fondamentaux de distribution statistique (1938; an English translation Two Basic Types of Statistical Distribution) by Czech geographer, demographer and statistician Jaromír Korčák. In 1984, such patterns were observed in the arrangement of atoms in quasicrystals."

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