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

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/