Bessel Functions Desk Ornament -- Waves at Bessel-on-Sea

Bessel Functions Desk Ornament -- Waves at Bessel-on-Sea

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This is a lasercut version of the Bessel Functions. The Bessel Functions were the major key to solving the structure of DNA. Francis Crick & Cochran wrote a paper explaining the expected form of X-ray diffraction from a helix is the sum of various Bessel functions: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1107/S0365110X52001635 More details in the blog post here: tinkerings.org/2019/09/21/waves-at-bessel-on-sea/

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