'Even kindergarteners know how to make Voronoi tessellations,' he says, describing an example involving kids running to candy tossed randomly in a classroom where they are playing.
In a recent Scientific American article, Buceta, an associate professor of bioengineering and a faculty member in the chemical and biomolecular engineering department, explains that the model is commonly observed in nature. Javier Buceta, studying epithelial cells. They are all examples of naturally occurring, puzzle-like patterns that may be modeled through a mathematical technique known as a Voronoi tessellation-a model that gave rise to the recent discovery of the scutoid, a new shape identified by a team of researchers, including Lehigh's Dr. What do honeycombs, the cells in dragonfly wings, and the brown spots on a giraffe's fur have in common?