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The three-dimensional structure of dodecafoam bears a passing resemblance to the conjectured internal structure of a new class of materials, "quasicrystals", first recognized in 1984. Such materials appear crystalline and show global order, but grow into forbidden symmetries, such as that of the regular dodecahedron.
Related to this new class of materials—“quasicrystals”– dodecafoam is a highly ordered froth of dodecahedra; this froth is ordered at all scales, from the infinitesimal to the infinitely large. However, there is no symmetry in the usual sense: each dodecahedron in the froth has a unique relationship to the whole.