Disordered structures such as liquids and glasses, grains and foams, galaxies, etc. are often represented as polyhedral tilings. Characterizing the associated polyhedral tiling is a promising strategy to understand the disordered structure. However, sinc
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The short-range order of a disordered structure can be thus characterized by what polyhedra constitute its associated polyhedral tiling, while the long-range order by how the polyhedra are arranged. So far, some attempts have been made to classify individual polyhedra1,11–16 and periodic tilings...