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		voldacar on Dec 27, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Raytracing diamonds My gut tells me it would work like a hash function, the diamond -> dot pattern function being trivial, but the dot pattern -> diamond function taking exponentially more effort

garmaine on Dec 27, 2021 [–]

There is nothing intrinsically hard about it. Crystallography is the science of reversing this dot pattern.

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