📷 Beautiful capture of network-like patterns known as "force chains"
This is Figure 2 of https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggae009 by D.W. Vasco and co-authors
Wikepedia article on force chains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_chain
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