Soft cell

For the band, see Soft Cell.

In mathematics, a soft cell is a shape with curved edges that can tile the 2D plane or 3D space.^[1] The class of shapes was discovered in 2024 by Gábor Domokos, Alain Goriely, Ákos G. Horváth and Krisztina Regős.^{[2] [3]}

The shapes are found in a wide variety of phenomena in nature, such as river estuaries, muscle fibres, and the seashell chambers of the nautilus.^[4][5]

According to Maths.ox.ac.uk, "The geometry of [... these] cells is similar to polyhedra, defined by a set of vertices, edges and faces. However [...] the edges of [... these] cells need not be straight and their faces need not be planar".^[6]