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Soft and condensed matter systems often produce visually striking patterns and structures. The images and animations below showcase some of these phenomena. Click on each to view 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: A cluster of 20000 particles grown via diffusion-limited aggregation. Particles are colored according to the order of their addition.

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]

Below: A classical molecular dynamics simulation of spherical particles interacting via a simple Lennard-Jones potential in a periodic box. Check out the original paper on this system by Aneesur Rahman and a very nice perspective article written many decades later.