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  1. Significance Thin films readily buckle to relax compression, creating wrinkle patterns that may cover large portions of the solid. Predicting the arrangement of wrinkles in general settings is a major challenge that affects our understanding of stresses and deformations in textiles, biological tissues, and synthetic skins. We identify a mesoscale structure that arises from the incompatibility of uniformly spaced wrinkles and a spatially varying director, unraveling an organizing principle with analogs in liquid crystalline and superconducting states of matter. 
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