A bit of a Bouvard and Pécuchet thing, which basically means an opportunity to wallow in the art of procrastination, led by vagrant and insidious thoughts, and a continuous flow of new found interests and awes, whether momentary or enduring, often seemingly disparate.
icosahedral photonic quasicrystal, diffraction patterns of decagonal quasicrystals and plate from Thomas Wright's "an original theory or new hypothesis of the universe"