AUTHOR=Hope Sigmund M., Kundu Sumanta , Roy Chandreyee , Manna Subhrangshu S., Hansen Alex 

TITLE=Network topology of the desert rose

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Physics

VOLUME=3

YEAR=2015

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2015.00072

DOI=10.3389/fphy.2015.00072

ISSN=2296-424X

ABSTRACT=<p>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.</p>