Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Bragg Your Pattern

@braggyourpattern.bsky.social

130 followers 160 following 24 posts

A group of pattern scientists (crystallographers) sharing posts using the #BraggYourPattern hashtag, see a pattern, take a photo, share and enjoy! https://braggyourpattern.com/

braggyourpattern.com

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Bragg Your Pattern @braggyourpattern.bsky.social · Jun 16

There are now boxes of #CrystalExplorer kits ready to go, a FREE resource for Primary Schools in Australia and NZ. We're targeting regional and remote schools (so far reaching from Tom Price to the Chatham Islands), head to BraggYourPattern.com to sign up for one

Ready packaged crystal explorer kits ready to be distributed to schools

A map of Australia and NZ, showing pins across the region where primary schools have signed up for a Crystal Explorer kit

2 5

Reposted by Bragg Your Pattern

Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 6d

Someone in Verona decided to make "phonon-ish manhole covers" - Approved 👌🏻 #Braggyourpattern

A manhole cover, where dots on a square grid are smoothly deviating from the square lattice, resembling a phonon in a crystal.

3 4 16

Reposted by Bragg Your Pattern

Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 9d

When diffraction data has low resolution you can always make some Rorschach Tests out of it. #crystallography #Braggyourpattern

A difference Fourier map shows red blobs surrounded by green-red-green etc. ripples, in an overall triangular symmetric pattern.

1 7

Reposted by Bragg Your Pattern

Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 10d

In case someone was wondering about the origin of those frequences... 😌 I admit this is pretty challenging to decipher in terms of real-space to reciprocal-space relationship, without knowing know how it is made. #FourierTransform #Crystallography #Braggyourpattern

An aperiodic tiling formed by the intersection of two square tilings of squares, one tilted by 43° with respect to the other. Many shapes are visible, diamonds, triangles, irregular octagons, and many other.

3 10

Bragg Your Pattern @braggyourpattern.bsky.social · 15d

Setting out today on a road-trip with the prototype 'Crystal-A-Con in a box', all you need to keep 50 exciable primary school kids #Crystallographically entertained and informed for an hour at a time??? Wish us luck!!

An image of the contents of a box of science communication equipment. There are eight boxes of crystal explorer kit, a tube with some mineral samples, a USB microscope, 3D printed Einstein tiles, freebies puzzles and of course a big bag of jubes (gelatine sweets) and toothpicks.

1 2 7

Reposted by Bragg Your Pattern

Kenichi Endo @kenichiendo.bsky.social · 17d

Missing-cluster defects and surface defects on the wall of the auditorium #BraggYourPattern #EuroMOF

1 11

Reposted by Bragg Your Pattern

Aron ⇋ e⁻ @aronwalsh.github.io · 24d

Infinite Buddha #BraggYourPattern

Photograph taken in the Shanghai museum of a carved Buddha array

2 2 11

Reposted by Bragg Your Pattern

UnterlassLAB @unterlasslab.bsky.social · 27d

#BraggYourPattern

1 7

Reposted by Bragg Your Pattern

UnterlassLAB @unterlasslab.bsky.social · 29d

#braggyourpattern

1 8

Reposted by Bragg Your Pattern

Rosie Young @rosieyoung.bsky.social · Sep 6

Here is a powder diffraction one for you Helen!
#BraggYourPattern

1 2 4

Reposted by Bragg Your Pattern

Rosie Young @rosieyoung.bsky.social · Sep 6

So many patterns! 😍🥰 collecting some crystallography teaching examples at the Melbourne quilt fair. #BraggYourPattern

Quilt with a black background and multicolored interlocking patterns

1 3 18

Reposted by Bragg Your Pattern

Martin Kroeker @kroekermartin.bsky.social · Aug 27

#BraggYourPattern Fiona Tan's "Het Grote Raam" in the (secularized) Grote Kerk of Alkmaar🇳🇱

A stained-glass church window consisting of colorful caleidoscopic squares, predominantly yellow and green at the bottom, red tones in the middle and blues towards the top, culminating in dark blue in the tracery.
(A chandelier hands to the right of the window, modern light fixtures to its left)

closer view of 4x5 squares, reds and yellowsvfrom the lower left of the widow

closer view of 4x5 squares from the lower right of the window, yellows giving way to orange and red/blue

1 2 4

Reposted by Bragg Your Pattern

Martin Kroeker @kroekermartin.bsky.social · Aug 18

Does this count for #BraggYourPattern ?

Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · Aug 18

A 12 petal, red-tipped flower design from a late 4th century AD mosaic set down in the dining room of #Littlecote Roman villa #Wiltshire

Found in 1729, then thought to be lost and destroyed

Found again in 1977 and still visible today

Huzzah!

📷 May 2015

#MosaicMonday!

A Roman mosaic depicting a stylised geometric design of a red petalled flower on a white background

1 2 3

Bragg Your Pattern @braggyourpattern.bsky.social · Aug 21

Sure does!

Reposted by Bragg Your Pattern

Kenichi Endo @kenichiendo.bsky.social · Aug 20

Found some crystallites in a kids ball pool with my son #BraggYourPattern

1 2 9

Reposted by Bragg Your Pattern

Dr Nathan Kilah @chemistrynathan.bsky.social · Aug 13

#BraggYourPattern

Heavily Into The World Of Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · Aug 13

Delight: these two geometrically pleasing quilts

A quilt of small circles in a gradation of colors

2 5

Bragg Your Pattern @braggyourpattern.bsky.social · Aug 13

Very different - They are crystal model kits! They come with enough atoms (an instructions) to make a diamond, lonsdalite, buckyball or sodalite structure. You can find lots more info on the website! braggyourpattern.com/crystal-expl...

image of the inside of the crystal explorer kit

1 1

Bragg Your Pattern @braggyourpattern.bsky.social · Aug 13

It's #ScienceWeek here in Australia, and in an update we're doing fabulously in sending out our crystal explorer kits to primary schools over Aus and NZ. If you know a school that might like one - direct them to braggyourpattern.com/crystal-expl... today!

A map of Australia and New Zealand showing the locations of primary schools that have signed up for our Free Crystal explorer kit - they are well spread over the two countries

A photo of the inside of a crystal explorer kit - the teaching booklet, and a brightly coloured sticker

1 8 7

Reposted by Bragg Your Pattern

Helen MC @crystallised-cricket.com · Aug 12

Inside Oroboros #BraggYourPattern

A view from inside the 'Oroboros' sculpture by Lindy Lee, in the garden of the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. A large polished steel installation, with many holes of different sizes through the metal

1 3

Reposted by Bragg Your Pattern

Shun Tokuda / 徳田駿 @shuntokuda.bsky.social · Aug 8

c2mm

#BraggYourPattern

1 1 4

Reposted by Bragg Your Pattern

Shun Tokuda / 徳田駿 @shuntokuda.bsky.social · Aug 7

cm stacked on pm
#BraggYourPattern

1 2 9

Reposted by Bragg Your Pattern

Romain Wernert @romainwernert.bsky.social · Aug 5

Nice ceiling in Duke Humphrey's library in Oxford #Braggyourpattern

1 4

Reposted by Bragg Your Pattern

Vicente Martí Centelles @vtemarticent.bsky.social · Jul 30

☀️ Get creative this summer! 🎨 Dive into the fascinating world of science with The Molecular Cages Coloring Book (1st Ed. 2025). Perfect for all ages!

Grab your FREE copy here:
➡️ vmarti.es/The_Molecula...

Share your masterpieces: #MolecularCages #TheMolecularCagesColoringBook

2 7 25

Reposted by Bragg Your Pattern

Nikolay Tumanov @ntumanovxray.bsky.social · Jul 28

Some say that #MOF were discovered in 1900s, but this figure from 1760s clearly show a crystal structure of a MOF with inclusion in pores. Look - metal centers, linkers, guest molecules, all in!

#MOF #chemsky #BraggYourPattern reporting from Portugal

1 6 32

Reposted by Bragg Your Pattern

Shun Tokuda / 徳田駿 @shuntokuda.bsky.social · Jul 21

p31m
#BraggYourPattern

2 3 12

Reposted by Bragg Your Pattern

Martin Kroeker @kroekermartin.bsky.social · Jul 21

#BraggYourPattern

Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · Jul 21

For #MosaicMonday a mosaic with a three dimensional cube pattern in a house on the #Greek island of #Delos, dating 2nd century BC.

#Archaeology 🏺

A mosaic floor with an optical illusion design of interlocking cubes in shades of red, white, and black, creating a 3D effect. The mosaic is bordered by a decorative spiral pattern and is set within the remains of a stone-walled structure surrounded by dry soil and sparse vegetation.

2 6