Desert roses are gypsum crystals that consist of intersecting disks. We determine their geometrical structure using computer assisted tomography. By mapping the geometrical structure onto a graph, the topology of the desert rose is analyzed and compared to a model based on diffusion limited aggregation. By comparing the topology, we find that the model gets a number of the features of the real desert rose right, whereas others do not fit so well.
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Hope, S. M., Kundu, S., Roy, C., Manna, S. S., & Hansen, A. (2015). Network topology of the desert rose. Frontiers in Physics, 3(SEP). https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2015.00072
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