Making Light:  The tastemakers of tomorrow ::: January 07, 2010, 04:22 PM

Kid Bitzer@15:

  the way that bubbles naturally solve surface-minimization problems

I feel compelled to mention that bubble films only give you a local
minimum, which is not all that hard on a computer.  Finding a global
minimum is NP-hard, and bubbles don't help.  The distinction is often
blurred in popular speculative math of the sort one shouldn't cite.