Can you create art to tile a wall? Or even better, what about creating a deployable wall that can be deployable and thus open and close? Lucy Liu, then an undergraduate student at Harvard College and now a graduate student at Harvard, Choi and Mahadevan demonstrated they could do just that. These 17 deployable shapes are made from so-called period tilings — tilings with repeated patterns. For more, read their paper published by the Royal Society.
