Symmetry, crystallography, and art

Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 889-898

  Hargittai, M ^a  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRALITY; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; LIGHT REFLECTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DISPARATE FIELDS; SIMPLEST SYMMETRIES; THREE DIMENSIONAL SPACE GROUPS;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 35348969311     PISSN: 09478396     EISSN: 14320630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00339-007-4216-1     Document Type: Article

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