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Soft and condensed matter systems are often visually striking. Click any of the images and animations below to see a higher resolution version.

Below: Height field of a fluctuating quasi-planar fluid membrane.

Below: Motility-induced crystallization in a suspension of active Brownian particles in two dimensions. Particles are colored by orientation.

Below: The early stages of quenching an Ising magnet with a million spins to the critical temperature.

Below: Strain fluctuations in a disk packing (left) and spring network (right) close to the isostatic point.

Below: An inside view of a fibrous network with embedded particles, rendered in Blender. [associated paper]

Below: Animation of a network of interconnected elastic filaments under increasing simple shear strain, projected onto the plane perpendicular to the direction of applied shear.

Below: Force chains in a marginally stable sheared spring network. [associated paper]