Display pixels to gem-gum voxels analogy

A bit like only three base colors RGB can make for all kinds of colors a few high performance base gemstone materials can make for all kinds of mechnical properties.

Microcomponents could be shaped in many ways. Here the exampele shapes are based on "Voroni cells around points in a face-centered cubic (FCC) lattice" as done in nice work from George W. Hart here: https://www.georgehart.com/rp/FCC.html (the central blue images here)
Crystolecular base metamaterials may be mobile and deforming (like e.g. shearing in infinitesimal bearing metamaterials and muscle motor meteamaterials) requiring alignment to registry and locking into machine phase before disassembly (of assembly).

2D pixels making any sort of color with just 3 colors form a nice analogy to
3D voxels forming any sort of mechanical (and other) material properties
by usage of just a handful of high performance base materials.
Out of abundantly available chemical elements.

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Related

• Gemstone based metamaterials
• Mechanical metamaterials
• Metamaterials
• Gem-gum
• Elasticity emulation
• Superelasticity
• Base materials with high potential
• Likely visual appearance of gem-gum products